How ancient RNA survives and what we can learn from it

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Marc R. Friedländer
Gilbert, Tom

Although normally transient, RNA can persist postmortem when preserved by cold, desiccation or chemical treatment. In this Comment, we discuss how ancient RNA enables the study of gene expression of (pre)historic viruses, plants and animals going back at least as far as the last Ice Age.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Tidsskrift	Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
Antal sider	2
ISSN	1471-0072
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41580-024-00726-y
Status	E-pub ahead of print - 2024

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Funding Information:
We apologize to the researchers whose work we could not cite here owing to limited space. M.R.F. acknowledges funding from VR consolidator grant 2022-03953 “InSync”. M.T.P.G. acknowledges funding from award DNRF143.

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© Springer Nature Limited 2024.

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