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Researchers Confirm Original Blood Vessels in 80 Million-Year-Old Fossil

By Guest PostJanuary 9, 2016Scienceevolutionary relationships, extinct organisms, fossilization, hadrosaur fossil, molecular paleontologist, original blood vessels

Researchers from North Carolina State University have confirmed that blood vessel-like structures found in an 80 million-year-old hadrosaur fossil are original to the animal, and not biofilm or other contaminants. Their findings add to the growing body of evidence that structures like blood vessels and cells can persist over millions of years, and the data not only confirm earlier reports of protein sequences in dinosaurs, they represent a significant advance in methodology. (more…)

Ancient gene

By Guest PostOctober 17, 2014Science1872, aelteste sauerstoffoase, dan lane, dark matter, dentist, ecosystems, enzyme, evolutionary relationships, extracting patient tooth, matt kane, modern era, mrsa keime, notion of slacktivism, political activity, reverse slacktivism effect, sauerstoffproduzierende bakterien, slacktivism, social cause, sonya dal cin, synthetisch erzeugten wirkstoffe, university of delaware, viruses

Researchers at UD use ancient gene to study virus biology

Researchers at the University of Delaware have discovered that an ancient gene — ribonucleotide reductase (RNR), which occurs in all cellular life — provides important biological insights into the characteristics of unknown viruses in the sea. (more…)