Ancient DNA

The oldest DNA sequenced from physical specimens are from mammoth molars in Siberia over 1 million years old. ... In 2022, two-million year old genetic material ...

Ancient DNA analysis | Nature Reviews Methods Primers

Although the first ancient DNA molecules were extracted more than three decades ago, the first ancient nuclear genomes could only be ...

Ancient DNA - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

Ancient DNA isolated from fossils usually contains very different levels of contamination and is difficult to sequence. However, large data generated by the ...

Ancient DNA challenges prevailing interpretations of the Pompeii ...

From skeletal material embedded in the casts, we generated genome-wide ancient DNA and strontium isotopic data to characterize the genetic ...

Ancient DNA lab maps little-explored human lineages

Emory scholars study genetics of deep past to better understand modern-day populations of the Americas.

Ancient DNA and Neanderthals

Scientists have, and continue to, extract ancient DNA (aDNA) which they use to reconstruct the genome of long-gone ancestors and relatives.

Ancient DNA Challenges Stories Told About Pompeii Victims

DNA analysis has upended a popular narrative about two people whose remains were cast in plaster in the House of the Cryptoporticus in ...

Ancient DNA as a tool for medical research | Nature Medicine

Ancient DNA as a tool for medical research ... Paleogenomics can help elucidate the genetic basis of modern diseases, including inborn errors of ...

Advancements and Challenges in Ancient DNA Research

Ancient DNA (aDNA) research first began in 1984 and ever since has greatly expanded our understanding of evolution and migration.

The truth behind embracing figures found in ancient Pompeii - CNN

This week, uncover the secrets of Pompeii through ancient DNA, meet an adventurous emperor penguin, seek signs of mysterious Planet Nine, ...

Achievements and Peculiarities in Studies of Ancient DNA and DNA ...

Ancient DNA analysis involves sequencing of a large number of short fragments that have multiple overlapping of the same genomic regions. Low sequencing speed ...

Features - Ancient DNA Revolution - September/October 2024

Recent studies of ancient DNA have revealed much more about the human past beyond our genetic connections to extinct human species. In the last decade, ...

Downloadable genotypes of present-day and ancient DNA data

On this page you can download a merged dataset consisting of genotypes for thousands of ancient and present-day individuals at up to 1.23 million positions in ...

Separating endogenous ancient DNA from modern day ... - PNAS

We designed a statistical framework to isolate endogenous ancient DNA sequences from contaminating sequences using postmortem degradation patterns and were able ...

Ancient DNA News - ScienceDaily

Sep. 25, 2024 — Scientists successfully extracted and analyzed DNA from ancient cheese samples found alongside the Tarim Basin mummies in China, dating back ...

Ancient DNA studies: new perspectives on old samples

In spite of past controversies, the field of ancient DNA is now a reliable research area due to recent methodological improvements.

The case of the Well-man described in an Old Norse saga: iScience

The potential of ancient DNA analyses to provide independent sources of information about events in the historical record remains to be ...

Ancient DNA News, Articles | The Scientist Magazine®

The oldest DNA yet isolated from humans in Africa reveals long-range migrations around 50,000 years ago, which likely played a role in the Middle to Later Stone ...

Ancient DNA and the rewriting of human history - Genome Biology

Ancient DNA research is revealing a human history far more complex than that inferred from parsimonious models based on modern DNA.

Ancient DNA - UCSC Paleogenomics Lab

Ancient DNA is a field of molecular evolutionary biol- ogy that uses DNA sequence data recovered from poorly preserved organisms, usually deceased for ...