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Figure from the PNAS paper showing the transmission routes using phylogenetic networks

COVID-19: genetic network analysis provides ‘snapshot’ of pandemic origins

09 Apr 2020
Study charts the 'incipient supernova' of SARS-CoV-2 through genetic mutations as it spread from China and Asia to Australia, Europe and North America...
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Section of normal testes of a young man

Study finds increased DNA mutations in children of teenage fathers

18 Feb 2015
New research reveals that the sperm cells of adolescent boys have more than six times the rate of DNA mutations as the equivalent egg cells in...
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Skull and bones of Richard III

Richard III – case closed after 529 years

02 Dec 2014
DNA and genealogical study confirms identity of remains found in Leicester and uncovers new truths about his appearance and Plantagenet lineage.
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Pompeii's mystery horse

Identity of Pompeii’s mystery horse revealed

17 Dec 2010
The identity of a mysterious breed of “horse” which has baffled experts since its remains were uncovered at Pompeii has been resolved by a Cambridge...
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