Barrie Schwortz: “We Discovered New DNA on the Shroud of Turin That Tells a Different Story”

Barrie Schwortz: “We Discovered New DNA on the Shroud of Turin That Tells a Different Story” In October 2015, a team led by Dr. Gianni Barcaccia at the University of Padua's Department of Agronomy published the first comprehensive DNA analysis of fibers extracted from the Shroud of Turin. The paper appeared in Scientific Reports, the peer-reviewed open-access journal published by the Nature Publishing Group. It was the first time genetic material from the world's most studied religious artifact had been analyzed at the resolution modern sequencing technology allows. The results were reported in the international press in cautious language. The underlying data was more difficult to explain than the coverage suggested.