{"id":121790,"date":"2021-04-21T08:23:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T15:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/in-moon-landing-of-genomics-scientists-sequence-ancient-dna-from-dirt"},"modified":"2021-04-21T08:23:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T15:23:47","slug":"in-moon-landing-of-genomics-scientists-sequence-ancient-dna-from-dirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/in-moon-landing-of-genomics-scientists-sequence-ancient-dna-from-dirt","title":{"rendered":"In \u2018Moon Landing of Genomics,\u2019 Scientists Sequence Ancient DNA From Dirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-moon-landing-of-genomics-scientists-sequence-ancient-dna-from-dirt.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No fossils necessary.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists have achieved a breakthrough they\u2019re comparing to the moon landing: sequencing a full ancient genome from soil samples.<\/p>\n<p>How\u2019s that on par with humans touching down on the lunar surface? Well, the research team from the University of Copenhagen found the <em>entire<\/em> genetic code of an ancient bear species without obtaining it from fossils, marking the very first time scientists have found genes outside the fossil record. And by gathering the DNA from the soil, these researchers gathered a bunch of examples, rather than just one single specimen\u2019s genome.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists found the ancient bear genetic material in the soil of Chiquihuite Cave in rural Mexico. Like the ancient Chauvet Cave in France, Chiquihuite contains some of the oldest human evidence in the world\u2014but humans weren\u2019t the only ones to use the caves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No fossils necessary. Scientists have achieved a breakthrough they\u2019re comparing to the moon landing: sequencing a full ancient genome from soil samples. How\u2019s that on par with humans touching down on the lunar surface? Well, the research team from the University of Copenhagen found the entire genetic code of an ancient bear species without obtaining [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121790","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}