As his former mentor and graduate supervisor Svante Pääbo receives the Nobel Prize for medicine, McMaster evolutionary geneticist Hendrik Poinar talks about the ways in which Pääbo fundamentally shaped his own groundbreaking research.
An international team of researchers analyzed centuries-old DNA from victims and survivors of the Black Death pandemic, identifying key genetic differences that determined who lived and who died, and how those aspects of our immune systems have continued to evolve since that time.
An international team led by researchers at McMaster University, working in collaboration with the University of Paris Cité, has identified and reconstructed the first ancient genome of E. coli, using fragments extracted from the gallstone of a 16th century mummy.
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