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    Horse Domestication: Key Genes Identified for Taming & Rider Tolerance

    Horse Domestication: Key Genes Identified for Taming & Rider Tolerance

    Research reveals that ZPFM1 & GSDMC genes played vital roles in early horse domestication, impacting tameness and physical resilience for riders during the Bronze Age. Ancient DNA analysis provides key insights.

    Freeze-drying turned a woolly mammoth’s DNA into 3-D ‘chromoglass’

    Freeze-drying turned a woolly mammoth’s DNA into 3-D ‘chromoglass’

    In unconventional experiments with lab-made beef jerky, the team found that such glassy DNA can remain stable for at least a year at room temperature and stand up to varied insults including being microwaved, run over with a car, smashed with a fastball and blasted with a shotgun.