Hyperthermophilic archaea are true survival experts. They thrive in boiling hot springs and deep-sea vents—environments ...

While sifting through the juvenile mammoth’s genetic materials for traces of RNA, the team made another surprising discovery: ...

Almost 40,000 years ago, a juvenile woolly mammoth died in modern-day Siberia. Today, its long-frozen remains have yielded ...

Scientists have extracted the oldest RNA molecules out of a woolly mammoth, gaining a snapshot into the processes at work in ...

Scientists have recovered the oldest-known RNA, a molecule necessary for most biological functions, from a woolly mammoth ...

A collaborative study by scientists at the University of California, Riverside, and University of Southern California reports ...

Mármol and his colleagues extracted RNA sequences from the muscles and skin of 10 permafrozen woolly mammoth specimens found ...

Researchers from Stockholm University have—for the first time ever—managed to successfully isolate and sequence RNA molecules ...

RNA usually breaks down quickly, often within hours after death. Before this study, the oldest recovered RNA came from a ...

Two complementary studies led by researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS ...

Researchers have designed a smart drug that hunts down and breaks a little-known RNA that cancer cells depend on. The drug ...

A 40,000-year-old juvenile woolly mammoth named Yuka is not only remarkable because she was uncovered nearly intact or her ...