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Ingrida Domarkienė: It's fascinating, how you can reassemble stories from DNA pieces, you know: You just sequence DNA; it's kind of the technological thing.
Ingrida Domarkienė studies ancient DNA, weaving together fragments of genetic material from modern humans and our long-extinct human relatives to retell their stories. From a background in ...
A new study maps the genetic origins of Scythians, showing diverse steppe and minor Asian ancestry and revising long‑held ...
The researchers extracted DNA from teeth and bones found in Iron Age burial sites. Using advanced sequencing technology, they were able to read the genetic code of these ancient individuals.
Another individual was also flagged as having unexpectedly high levels of DNA sequences from chromosome 18, suggesting an extra copy of that chromosome. Trisomy 18 is also known as Edwards Syndrome.
A study of ancient DNA from Europeans between 1,700 and 45,000 years ago suggests that 63 percent of them had dark skin.
Researchers from Trinity College Dublin say that Britain's Iron Age society centred on women. Pictured: Durotrigian burial of a young woman from Langton Herring sampled for DNA. She was buried ...
An international team of geneticists, led by those from Trinity, has joined forces with archaeologists from Bournemouth University to decipher the structure of British Iron Age society, finding ...
During the Iron Age or Roman Period, the DNA of people in the south-east diverged somewhat from that of populations in the rest of the Britain.
Archaeologists stunned as Bronze Age migration discovery re-writes Celtic language history ANALYSIS of ancient DNA has revealed that a mass migration from France to England and Wales between 1000 ...
An international team of geneticists, led by those from Trinity College Dublin, has joined forces with archaeologists from Bournemouth University to decipher the structure of British Iron Age ...