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Scientists Extract the Oldest RNA Ever Found, Revealing How a Woolly Mammoth’s Genes May Have Functioned 40,000 Years Ago
Almost 40,000 years ago, a juvenile woolly mammoth died in modern-day Siberia. Today, its long-frozen remains have yielded ...
The well-preserved remains of a woolly mammoth found in Siberia enabled scientists to extract RNA for the first time and ...
Researchers from Stockholm University have—for the first time ever—managed to successfully isolate and sequence RNA molecules ...
Scientists have remarkably extracted the world's oldest RNA from a 39,000-year-old woolly mammoth.The discovery, published in the scientific journal Cell made from male mammoth named Yuka preserved in ...
Scientists have extracted the oldest RNA molecules out of a woolly mammoth, gaining a snapshot into the processes at work in ...
Scientists extracted 39,000-year-old RNA from a frozen woolly mammoth, revealing which genes were active when it died.
Researchers at Stockholm University have extracted and sequenced the oldest known RNA molecules in the world ( Cell 2025, DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2025.10.025). The ancient RNA (aRNA) comes from skin and ...
Mármol and his colleagues extracted RNA sequences from the muscles and skin of 10 permafrozen woolly mammoth specimens found ...
The extraction of high‐quality RNA from plant tissues is a critical prerequisite for gene expression studies and other molecular analyses. Over the past decades, researchers have refined methods to ...
The oldest RNA ever reported until now came from a 14,300-year-old “wolf” puppy frozen in permafrost. But when Mármol-Sánchez ...
Researchers at Stockholm University carefully ground up bits of muscle and other tissue from Yuka and nine other woolly ...
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