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Ghosts of bottlenecks past

CJAB wrote 3 days ago: © D. Bathory I’ve just spent the last week at beautiful Linnaeus Estate on the northern NSW co … more →

Tags: climate change, Biodiversity, decline, Conservation, Australia, inbreeding depression, Threatened Species, Allee effect, Genetics

Scientists to use genetic testing to decide if bigfoot really exists

ForensicConnect wrote 5 days ago: LONDON — Scientists are turning to genetic testing to see if they can prove the existence of the elu … more →

ACAD Guest speaker: Johannes Krause - Podcast now available

The Environment Institute wrote 1 week ago: Download a podcast of Associate Professor Johannes Krause presentation titled, ‘The Genome of the Bl … more →

Tags: Events, Podcast, acad, Genome, black death, Johannes Krause

Dating phylogenies with ancient DNA

vastergotland1 wrote 1 week ago: I work with molecular systematic biology, which means that I extract DNA from plants and then sequen … more →

Tags: Systematic Biology, Phylogeny dating, Plants, Science, herbarium specimens

Ancient Migrations Tracked Through DNA

ForensicConnect wrote 2 weeks ago: Researchers analyzed mitochondrial DNA from Europeans who belong to two major lineages known to have … more →

Tags: ancestry

Ötzi the 5,300 old ice man has oldest blood cells in the world

ForensicConnect wrote 3 weeks ago: The Telegraph Ötzi was dubbed the “victim of the world’s oldest murder puzzle” aft … more →

Tags: Forensic Industry News, dna in the news

Ancient migrants spread farming through Europe, suggests new analysis of 5,000-year-old DNA

ForensicConnect wrote 1 month ago: NEW YORK — Thousands of years ago, farming spread across Europe and replaced the hunter-gatherer lif … more →

Tags: ancestry

Forensic science used to determine who's who in pre-Columbian Peru

ForensicConnect wrote 1 month ago: Peru Analysis of ancient mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) has been used to establish migration and populati … more →

Tags: ancestry

DNA tests aim to identify 17th century figure

ForensicConnect wrote 1 month ago: Switzerland Archaeologists have reopened a grave in Switzerland to see if DNA testing can confirm it … more →

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Dexter wrote 1 month ago: Deoxyribonucleic Acid is a Central Block of most of the living creatures. It would be not fair if I … more →

Tags: Review, Featured Post, Biology and Life Science, DNA, artificial DNA, DNA origami

Ancient skeleton linked to Polynesia

ForensicConnect wrote 1 month ago: New Zealand A human skeleton formally buried almost 8000 years ago on a small strategic island off C … more →

Tags: ancestry

Afghans Share Unique Genetic Heritage, DNA Study By The Genographic Project

ForensicConnect wrote 1 month ago: National Geographic In a study released by The Genographic Project, DNA analysis shows that the majo … more →

Tags: ancestry

Did Europeans move to Africa to weather out ice ages?

ForensicConnect wrote 2 months ago: Mail Online UK People moved between Africa and Europe long before recorded history – and the m … more →

Scientists: thirty Indonesian women colonized Madagascar over one thousand years ago

ForensicConnect wrote 2 months ago: Scientists have discovered that Madagascar, the island nation off the east coast of Africa, was colo … more →

Tags: Mitochondrial testing, ancestry

Oahu lab hopeful DNA?can identify Civil War remains

ForensicConnect wrote 2 months ago: HONOLULU (AP) – Scientists hope the 150th anniversary of the sinking of the ironclad USS Monit … more →

Tags: cold cases, missing persons, Forensic Industry News, dna in the news

Were Some Neandertals Brown-Eyed Girls?

ForensicConnect wrote 2 months ago: In museums around the world, reproductions of Neandertals sport striking blue or green eyes, pale sk … more →

Tags: ancestry

Vikings Brought Mouse To North America, Study Suggests

ForensicConnect wrote 2 months ago: Scientific American Four-legged stowaways hitched a ride aboard the wooden 10th- and 11th-century Vi … more →

Cave Fossil Find: New Human Species or "Nothing Extraordinary"?

ForensicConnect wrote 2 months ago: National Geographic A previously unknown type of human—jut-jawed, heavy-browed, deer-eating cave dwe … more →

Tags: ancestry

Irish immigrant rail workers to be reburied

ForensicConnect wrote 2 months ago: Ireland The remains of five Irish immigrants killed while building a Pennsylvania railroad in 1832 w … more →

Tags: ancestry


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