Researchers have discovered that people who live more than 105 years likely have a special genetic background that makes their bodies more capable of repairing DNA, according to a new study.
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The defense minister of Russia has announced his desire to clone ancient royal fighters and their horses in a Dolly the sheep-esque project. Sergei Shoigu permitted an archaeological dig at the Tunnug burial mound that is about 3,000-year-old in the Valley of the Kings sited three years ago in Tuva, Siberia, and evidently wants to clone the migrant warriors that have been unearthed.
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Organic Remnants
A modern-day shaman was supposedly drafted in to make sure the spirits weren t displeased. The oldest remnants to have been found so far dates back to the ninth century BC, as stated by The Siberian Times.
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Genetic chimerism, also known as a chimera, is a single organism made up of cells with several genotypes. In species, this refers to an organism originating from two or more zygotes. It might include blood cells of various blood types, minor differences in structure (phenotype), and even the possession of both female and male sex organs if the zygotes were of different sexes.
Ethical Discussion
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Many scientists have expressed reservations about the procedure, claiming that although the embryos, in this case, were killed after 20 days, others might attempt to continue the research.
They re asking for a general discussion on the consequences of making chimeras that are part human and part nonhuman.
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A mammoth tooth discovered from the Siberian permafrost results in the oldest DNA yet uncovered and gives insight into the evolution of the massive beasts.
Genetic substance removed from a 1.2-million-year-old mammoth tooth is the recent record holder for the world s most ancient DNA.
Scientists from Sweden, in the Centre for Palaeogenetics, have examined the DNA and decided that it arrived from an earlier unknown kind of mammoth that has now been named the Krestovka mammoth.
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The Columbian Mammoths
The Krestovka mammoth is dubbed after the region of Russia in which it was discovered where it had been concealed in the Siberian permafrost for over a million years.
Mar 03, 2021 11:12 AM EST
Forest scincid lizard on Christmas Island and 12 animals on the list, including the desert bettong, large cheeked jumping mouse, and arena barred wallaby. The government of Australia has formally acknowledged that 13 of the endemic species went into extinction and this includes 12 mammals and the earliest reptile known to have vanished since the colonization by the Europeans.
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The increase of the dozen species of mammal species shows the inevitable position of Australia as the capital for the world mammal extinction, raising the entire number of species known to have gone into extinction to 34.
No one out of the 13 seems like a surprise. Almost all of the species extinctions are memorable, with most of them vanishing between the 1850s and 1950s. But the record also comprises two species that got lost, the pair from Christmas Island in the ocean of Indian over the last decade.