Scientists have recovered the oldest-known RNA, a molecule necessary for most biological functions, from a woolly mammoth ...
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New research shows RNA is preserved for longer than scientists had realized. This is the oldest RNA ever profiled.
Ancient RNA from Yuka, a 40,000-year-old woolly mammoth preserved in permafrost, can offer new biological insights into the Ice Age animal’s life.
The oldest RNA ever reported until now came from a 14,300-year-old “wolf” puppy frozen in permafrost. But when Mármol-Sánchez ...
With “Crick: A Mind in Motion,” the British biologist Matthew Cobb aims for the tricky “middle path”: a life vivid enough to ...
Research suggests that dozens of genes—perhaps up to 40—play a role in shaping handedness. Rather than determining it ...
Researchers in Sweden and Denmark have for the first time managed to successfully isolate and sequence RNA molecules from the ...
Scientists have managed to rescue the molecule, against all odds, from a calf that died after being attacked by cave lions ...
In 2010 Yukaghir hunters found the nearly intact carcass of a young woolly mammoth frozen in the northern Siberian permafrost ...
Researchers from Stockholm University extracted the RNA sequences from a juvenile mammoth (named Yuka) that died almost ...
Natural gas—one of the planet's most abundant energy sources—is primarily composed of methane, ethane, and propane. While it ...