Scientists have extracted the oldest RNA molecules out of a woolly mammoth, gaining a snapshot into the processes at work in ...
New research published in the journal Cell reveals that scientists have managed to extract RNA, the molecule that translates ...
Long before modern humans built cities or carved out farms, woolly mammoths wandered across frozen plains with thick coats ...
RNA from an exceptionally well preserved woolly mammoth gives us a window on gene activity in an animal that died nearly ...
The frozen remains of a juvenile woolly mammoth named Yuka preserved details about the animal’s last moments alive ...
Scientists examine the mummified remains of a 39,000-year-old mammoth nicknamed Yuka, whose tissue yielded ancient RNA in a ...
The body of the young woolly mammoth known as Yuka was so well-preserved that scientists were able to recover ancient RNA molecules. (Valeri Plotnikov) It was 2012 when Love Dalén, a paleogeneticist ...