Oldest blood sample ever retrieved sheds new light on Ötzi's death and may help improve understanding of blood aging
Ötzi the Iceman was found frozen solid in the Italian Alps in 1991. Photograph: Andrea Solero/AFP/Getty Images
As cold cases go, it does not get much colder than Ötzi the
Iceman, whose body was found frozen solid in the Italian Alps 5,300
years after he died from an arrow wound.
Since he was discovered
by trekkers in 1991, scientists have mapped his DNA and figured out
everything from what ailments he suffered from (Lyme disease and a weak
heart) to the last meal he ate (venison and ibex) before he was shot in
the back, probably by an enemy tribesman.
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