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‘Origami’ method could speed up diagnosis of neurodegenerative disease

21 May 2026

Researchers have developed a technique that can identify errors caused by mutations linked to a range of genetic disorders, including forms of...

The sequencing of COVID-19

17 Apr 2020

Labs across the country have converted to the genetic sequencing of coronavirus samples to help track its mutation and spread. The initiative, COG-UK...

Genetic study suggests present-day Lebanese descend from biblical Canaanites

27 Jul 2017

Researchers analysed DNA extracted from 4,000-year-old human remains to reveal that more than 90% of Lebanese ancestry is from ancient Canaanite...

Right: Exterior of Devil’s Gate, the cave in the Primorye region near the far eastern coast of Russia. Left: One of the skulls found in the Devil’s Gate cave from which ancient DNA used in the study was extracted.

Ancient DNA reveals 'genetic continuity’ between Stone Age and modern populations in East Asia

01 Feb 2017

In contrast to Western Europeans, new research finds contemporary East Asians are genetically much closer to the ancient hunter-gatherers that lived...

Algorithm for predicting protein pairings could help show how living systems work

20 Sep 2016

An algorithm which models how proteins inside cells interact with each other will enhance the study of biology, and sheds light on how proteins work...

DNA was extracted from the molar teeth of this skeleton, dating from almost 10,000 years ago and found in the Kotias Klde rockshelter in Western Georgia.

‘Fourth strand’ of European ancestry originated with hunter-gatherers isolated by Ice Age

16 Nov 2015

Populations of hunter-gatherers weathered Ice Age in apparent isolation in Caucasus mountain region for millennia, later mixing with other ancestral...

This illustration depicts a three-dimensional (3D) computer-generated image of a cluster of rod-shaped drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria, the pathogen responsible for causing the disease tuberculosis (TB). The artistic recreation was based upon scanning electron micrographic imagery.

Cambridge partners with India to fight multidrug resistant TB

13 Feb 2015

The University of Cambridge has been awarded £2 million from the UK Medical Research Council and the Government of India’s Department for...

genetic sequencing

‘Origami’ method could speed up diagnosis of neurodegenerative disease

The sequencing of COVID-19

Genetic study suggests present-day Lebanese descend from biblical Canaanites

Ancient DNA reveals 'genetic continuity’ between Stone Age and modern populations in East Asia

Algorithm for predicting protein pairings could help show how living systems work

‘Fourth strand’ of European ancestry originated with hunter-gatherers isolated by Ice Age

Cambridge partners with India to fight multidrug resistant TB

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