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Bringing ancient light-sensing proteins back to life

  • June 17, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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Bringing ancient light-sensing proteins back to life
Resurrecting dinosaurs using DNA retrieved from a mosquito trapped in amber is a great movie plot, though it's less likely to happen in the real world. However, researchers have been trying to unlock the secrets behind the evolution of a single protein family to understand the evolution of ancestral proteins.

Originally published at Phys.org

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