Researchers Valerii Plotnikov and Dan Fisher slice a sample from 52,000-year-old mammoth skin. The skin provided the first ever look at the 3-D structure of the extinct animal’s DNA. It was so well-preserved that researchers could tell which genes were active at the time of the animal’s death and which were turned off. Those clues may help scientists learn how extinct animals functioned, not
just what they looked like.
Read more: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/drying-woolly-mammoth-dna-3d-glass
Video: M. Sandoval-Velasco et al/Cell 2024
Prepping a piece of woolly mammoth skin to peer at its DNA | Science News
