Blood RNA extraction is fundamental to modern biomedical research and clinical diagnostics, providing the basis for comprehensive gene expression profiling. This process involves isolating ...

RNA molecules have the capacity to survive the test of time. For the first time, the oldest RNA molecules have been extracted from the 40,000-year-old remains of an Ice Age woolly mammoth. Researchers ...

In 2010 Yukaghir hunters found the nearly intact carcass of a young woolly mammoth frozen in the northern Siberian permafrost. With its reddish-brown fur still clinging to its skin, the dog-sized calf ...

When scientists sliced into a block of Siberian permafrost and pulled out a woolly mammoth nicknamed Yuka, they expected to ...

Scientists have extracted RNA from an ancient woolly mammoth that gives new insight into the extinct beasts—and might one day boost moonshot efforts to resurrect them. The animal’s body was discovered ...