600343 external_news 1515001915 1515002078 It's called ancestral sequence reconstruction (ASR), and it's a way for Georgia Tech researcher Eric Gaucher to recreate ancient genetic material in his lab, and then observe how it evolves when spliced into modern-day variants. ASR has been around since the 1990s, but in recent years Gaucher and colleagues have been working on ways they might be able to use ancient genes to synthesize better disease-fighting proteins. Gaucher is an associate professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry.

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