
World’s oldest RNA sequenced from 40,000-year-old woolly mammoth
When we think of a mammoth preserved in ice, hair, bones and skin come to mind. When the research group led by Emilio Mármol-Sánchez who published it in the journal Celllooked at those fragments but found something infinitely more fragile: theRNAa molecule that disintegrates with impressive speed in fresh tissues, all it takes is one enzyme out of place and ...








