'Iceman' mummy holds world's oldest blood cells

Tuesday, May 1, 2012 - 20:00 in Health & Medicine

The oldest red blood cells ever identified have been found in the body of  Ötzi the Iceman, a 5,300-year-old mummy found in the Alps in 1991.

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