Enter the geneticists, who plucked tissue from the 90-year-old remains, extracted DNA, and used that DNA to sequence the dog’s genome.

Source: https://gizmodo.com/balto-sled-dog-dna-genome-huskies-zoonomia-alaska-1850378435

Leading geneticists from the universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh have linked a variant in the gene to a historic origin in Westray.

Source: https://www.orcadian.co.uk/monthly-cancer-drop-in-sessions-to-launch-in-westray/

• Scientists recover RNA from extinct species for first time: A team of geneticists in Sweden have for the first time managed to decode RNA molecules, genetic material present in all living cells that has structural similarities to DNA.

Source: https://worldcrunch.com/in-the-news/armenia-azerbaijan-nagorno-karabakh