Left cerebral hemisphere of an adult male buried at the site of the former Blackberry Hill Hospital (Bristol, UK). The surface of the brain's visible convolutions is stained red with iron oxides. Credit: Alexandra Morton-Hayward A new method developed by researchers at the Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, could soon unlock the vast repository of biological information held in the proteins of ancient soft tissues. The findings, which could open up a new era for paleobiologic...