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Ancient DNA analysis unlocks secrets of Ice Age tribes in the Americas
The results have been published in the journal Science as part of a wide-ranging international study, led by the University of Cambridge, which genetically analysed the DNA of a series of well-known...
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DNA from 31,000-year-old milk teeth leads to discovery of new group of...
The finding was part of a wider study which also discovered 10,000-year-old human remains in another site in Siberia are genetically related to Native Americans – the first time such close genetic...
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‘Game-changing’ research could solve evolution mysteries
Researchers identified an almost complete set of proteins, a proteome, in the dental enamel of the rhino and the genetic information discovered is one million years older than the oldest DNA sequenced...
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Vikings had smallpox and may have helped spread the world’s deadliest virus
Smallpox spread from person to person via infectious droplets, killed around a third of sufferers and left another third permanently scarred or blind. Around 300 million people died from it in the 20th...
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World’s largest-ever DNA sequencing of Viking skeletons reveals they weren’t...
Now cutting-edge DNA sequencing of more than 400 Viking skeletons from archaeological sites scattered across Europe and Greenland will rewrite the history books as it has shown:Skeletons from famous...
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Stone Age bear genome reconstructed from DNA in Mexican cave
A team of scientists led by Professor Eske Willerslev in the University of Cambridge’s Department of Zoology and the Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Centre, University of Copenhagen, have recreated the...
View ArticleA new chapter in the history of evolution: Two-million-year-old DNA
Discovery of world’s oldest DNA breaks record by one million years.
View ArticleAncient DNA reveals reason for high MS and Alzheimer's rates in Europe
Researchers have created the world’s largest ancient human gene bank, and used it to map the historical spread of genes – and diseases – over time as populations migrated.
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