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More than 30 million people globally have done a family history DNA test, but few realise this multi-billion dollar ...
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More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...
The oldest known Egyptian DNA sample, from a man who lived between 4,500 to 4,800 years ago, offers new insights into the ...
Scientists have decoded the DNA of an ancient Egyptian man. His remains, found in a clay pot, suggest cultural links between ...
Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) have extracted and sequenced the ...
A new study sequencing the first complete ancient Egyptian genome reveals the 4,500-year-old man had significant ancestry ...
For the first time, scientists have sequenced the oldest and complete DNA set of an ancient Egyptian man, dating to when the ...
Powerful new applications of what is known as next-generation sequencing are now helping with identification of degraded ...
Scientists decoded the DNA of an ancient Egyptian man, uncovering surprising links to both North Africa and Mesopotamia in a ...
What started as a simple ancestry DNA test uncovered a chilling truth—a baby stolen from a hospital five decades ago had ...