A new study from researchers at McMaster and Harvard has revealed the Ice Age giants migrated vast distances in response to shifting climates - and were far more genetically diverse than previously known.
Campeau, a recipient of an Undergraduate Student Research Award, is spending the summer working in the Ancient DNA Centre. She's searching for Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, in ancient human teeth.
Scientists address fundamental questions about pandemics: How do they enter human populations, cause immense sickness, and evolve different levels of virulence to persist in populations?
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