Editing Dead Sea Scrolls (section)

===DNA scroll assembly (2006–2020)===
Scientists with the IAA have used [[DNA]] from the parchment on which the fragments were written, in concert with infrared digital photography, to assist in the reassembly of the scrolls. For scrolls written on parchment made from animal hide and papyrus, scientists with the museum are using DNA code to associate fragments with different scrolls and to help scholars determine which scrolls may hold greater significance based on the type of material that was used.{{r|aaas.org}} In a paper published in 2020 in the journal ''Cell'', researchers from [[Tel Aviv University]] have shown that DNA extracted from the scrolls can be used to sort different scroll fragments not only based on the animal species but also based on variations in the nuclear genome of individual fragments. This effort enabled the researchers to match different fragments to each other based on their genetics and separate fragments which were falsely connected in the past.<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1016/j.cell.2020.04.046|title=Illuminating Genetic Mysteries of the Dead Sea Scrolls|year=2020|last1=Anava|first1=Sarit|last2=Neuhof|first2=Moran|last3=Gingold|first3=Hila|last4=Sagy|first4=Or|last5=Munters|first5=Arielle|last6=Svensson|first6=Emma M.|last7=Afshinnekoo|first7=Ebrahim|last8=Danko|first8=David|last9=Foox|first9=Jonathan|last10=Shor|first10=Pnina|last11=Riestra|first11=Beatriz|last12=Huchon|first12=Dorothée|last13=Mason|first13=Christopher E.|last14=Mizrahi|first14=Noam|last15=Jakobsson|first15=Mattias|last16=Rechavi|first16=Oded|journal=Cell|volume=181|issue=6|pages=1218–1231.e27|pmid=32492404|s2cid=219300081|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-dna-unlocks-the-secrets-of-the-dead-sea-scrolls-1.8897769 |title=DNA Unlocks the Secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls |newspaper=Haaretz |access-date=13 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200613043300/https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-dna-unlocks-the-secrets-of-the-dead-sea-scrolls-1.8897769 |archive-date=13 June 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>