Extract

Scientists from Stockholm University, the Arctic University of Norway, Lund University and Karolinska Institute have extracted, sequenced and analyzed historical RNA from muscle and skin tissue of a 130-year-old thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) preserved in desiccation at room temperature in a museum collection. A pair of thylacines, a male and female, c. 1905. Image credit: Smithsonian