For the first time, an Ice-Age woolly mammoth's RNA was isolated and sequenced, providing potential to learn more about the extinct mammal and allowing similar procedures to learn about other animals.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists successfully extracted viable RNA from a young woolly mammoth named Yuka that died 40,000 years ago in Siberia, which ...
Nov. 15 (UPI) --The well-preserved remains of a woolly mammoth found in Siberia enabled scientists to extract RNA for the first time and learn more about the animal. The woolly mammoth died about ...