A 700,000 year old horse gets its genome sequenced

Wednesday, June 26, 2013 - 14:30 in Biology & Nature

Scientists have just sequenced the oldest genome from a prehistoric creature. They have done so by sequencing and analyzing short pieces of DNA molecules preserved in bone-remnants from a horse that had been kept frozen for the last 700,000 years in the permafrost of Yukon, Canada.

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