And it’s the target of one of biology's most ambitious projects - scientists want to map the DNA of every ... Every day, samples from all over the British Isles are arriving.

By plotting each person onto a map of the British Isles, using the centre point of their grandparents' birth places, they were able to see how this distribution correlated with their genetic ...

Scientists want to map the DNA of every single life form, including plants, animals and fungi, in the UK and Ireland - around 70,000 species altogether. This would be of one of biology's most ...

The People of the British Isles (PoBI) project examined differences at more than 500,000 positions in the DNA of more than 2,000 people from the UK, thus creating the most detailed genetic map of ...

Genetic map of the British Isles. Crown copyright and database right 2012/EuroGeographics A genetic map of the British Isles has shown the Welsh are most closely related to the earliest settlers ...

A COLOURED map of the British Isles, designed to illustrate several aspects of their geography, has been published as a reprint from a Polish volume compiled under the editorship of Dr. Z.

The first in-depth genetic scan of the British Isles shows their violent history of invasion after invasion lives on in the people. The blood of Norwegian Vikings still flows in the residents of ...

Inspired by the BBC election night's map of the British Isles - which spookily resembled a Catan board (including Emily Maitlis as a real-life robber) - I can't be the only one looking at the BBC ...