{"id":112816,"date":"2020-09-10T01:22:29","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T08:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/researchers-reveal-a-much-richer-picture-of-the-past-with-new-dna-recovery-technique"},"modified":"2020-09-10T01:22:29","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T08:22:29","slug":"researchers-reveal-a-much-richer-picture-of-the-past-with-new-dna-recovery-technique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/researchers-reveal-a-much-richer-picture-of-the-past-with-new-dna-recovery-technique","title":{"rendered":"Researchers reveal a much richer picture of the past with new DNA recovery technique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-reveal-a-much-richer-picture-of-the-past-with-new-dna-recovery-technique2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at McMaster University have developed a new technique to tease ancient DNA from soil, pulling the genomes of hundreds of animals and thousands of plants\u2014many of them long extinct\u2014from less than a gram of sediment.<\/p>\n<p>The DNA extraction method, outlined in the journal <i>Quarternary Research<\/i>, allows scientists to reconstruct the most advanced picture ever of environments that existed thousands of years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers analyzed permafrost samples from four sites in the Yukon, each representing different points in the Pleistocene-Halocene transition, which occurred approximately 11,000 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at McMaster University have developed a new technique to tease ancient DNA from soil, pulling the genomes of hundreds of animals and thousands of plants\u2014many of them long extinct\u2014from less than a gram of sediment. The DNA extraction method, outlined in the journal Quarternary Research, allows scientists to reconstruct the most advanced picture ever [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}