Woolly mammoth's secrets for shrugging off cold points toward new artificial blood for humans

Wednesday, September 14, 2011 - 11:01 in Biology & Nature

The blood from woolly mammoths -- those extinct elephant-like creatures that roamed the Earth in pre-historic times -- is helping scientists develop new blood products for modern medical procedures that involve reducing patients' body temperature. The report appears in ACS' journal Biochemistry.

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