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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
The frozen remains of a juvenile woolly mammoth named Yuka preserved details about the animal’s last moments alive ...
Scientists have sequenced the oldest RNA from a 40,000-year-old mammoth named Yuka, unlocking genetic activity from its final ...
Researchers say they have recovered RNA from the remains of a woolly mammoth that lived roughly 39,000 years ago.
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Mammoth RNA sequenced for the first time, marking a giant leap toward understanding prehistoric life
Scientists successfully sequence the RNA from woolly mammoths found in Siberia that lived up between 10,000 thousand and 50,000 years ago.
Researchers at Stockholm University carefully ground up bits of muscle and other tissue from Yuka and nine other woolly mammoths, then used special chemical treatments to pull out any remaining RNA ...
RNA therapeutics have been around since the late 1990s, but interest in these medicines has skyrocketed since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic and the success of messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines.
Scientists have extracted the oldest RNA molecules out of a woolly mammoth, gaining a snapshot into the processes at work in the extinct mammal's body just before it died.
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