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For the first time, researchers decoded the RNA of an extinct animal
For the first time, researchers have successfully extracted and decoded RNA from an extinct animal.
The thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian tiger, was a wolflike marsupial that went extinct after the last one died in a zoo in Hobart, Tasmania in 1936. Now a roughly 130-year-old museum specimen has yielded bits of RNA, the fragile molecules responsible for turning DNA’s genetic instructions into cellular functions, researchers report in the August Genome Research. The results shed new light on
Neuroscientists decoded a Pink Floyd song using people’s brain activity
In what seems like something out of a sci-fi movie, scientists have plucked the famous Pink Floyd song “Another Brick in the Wall” from individuals’ brains.
Using electrodes, computer models and brain scans, researchers previously have been able to decode and reconstruct individual words and entire thoughts from people’s brain activity (SN: 11/15/22; SN: 5/1/23).
The new study, published August 15 in PLOS Biology, adds music into the mix, showing that songs can also be decoded from
Neuroscientists decoded people’s thoughts using brain scans
Like Dumbledore’s wand, a scan can pull long strings of stories straight out of a person’s brain — but only if that person cooperates.
This “mind-reading” feat, described May 1 in Nature Neuroscience, has a long way to go before it can be used outside of sophisticated laboratories. But the result could ultimately lead to seamless devices that help people who can’t talk or otherwise communicate easily. The research also raises privacy concerns about unwelcome neural eavesdropping (SN: