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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Credit: Denis-Art/Getty Images) The woolly mammoth is probably the single most iconic extinct mammal, leading to seemingly ...

The body of the young woolly mammoth known as Yuka was so well-preserved that scientists were able to recover ancient RNA molecules. (Valeri Plotnikov) It was 2012 when Love Dalén, a paleogeneticist ...

To obtain high-quality, purified nucleic acids, scientists can use several different methods, including phenol-chloroform extraction, cesium chloride/ethidium bromide (CsCl/EtBr) gradient ...

The woolly mammoth is probably the single most iconic extinct mammal, leading to seemingly never-ending efforts to resurrect it. To do that, however, scientists will need a good understanding of their ...

It was 2012 when Love Dalén, a paleogeneticist at Stockholm University, first laid eyes upon a special specimen on a lab table in eastern Siberia. "Our Russian collaborators said, 'Come here into this ...

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... Scientists pull ancient RNA from a woolly mammoth's ...