Sentences with word «paleogeneticist»

Not much nuclear DNA survives in such ancient fossils, say paleogeneticist Matthias Meyer of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and his colleagues.
Researchers sequenced nuclear DNA from three molars from layer 11 and a child's molar from a deeper layer, 22, according to a talk by graduate student Viviane Slon, who works in the lab of paleogeneticist Svante Pääbo at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
But whoever these people were, their descendants successfully spread far and wide, for their genes show up not only in Europeans but also in Native Americans, according to a talk by paleogeneticist Johannes Krause of the University of Tübingen in Germany, who spoke at a biomolecular archaeology meeting last week.
For the ancient DNA analysis, the team used methods pioneered by paleogeneticist Eske Willerslev of the University of Copenhagen to recover and sequence genetic material left behind in sediments even after the plants that originally contained it have disintegrated.
The Hayes team therefore worked with the world's leading laboratory in ancient DNA research, namely that of paleogeneticist Professor Svante Pääbo at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropolgy in Leipzig, Germany, who successfully sequenced a Neanderthal.
In the journal Antiquity last month, Kristiansen and paleogeneticist Eske Willerslev at the University of Copenhagen reported that the sex ratios of the earliest Yamnaya burials in central Europe suggest that the new arrivals were mostly men.
Working with paleogeneticist Svante Pääbo and biophysical chemist Barbara Treutlein, both of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, Huttner's team is growing brain organoids, tiny bits of tissue that develop in culture in a way that resembles an embryonic brain.
The DNA shows an unexpected hereditary link to the Denisovans, Neandertals» genetic cousins that lived in East Asia at least 44,000 years ago, say paleogeneticist Matthias Meyer of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and his colleagues.
To «track the movement and identity of residents through time and space,» paleogeneticist Meirav Meiri dons her mask and gloves and descends through the layers, preparing samples for analysis at her Tel Aviv University lab.
«The paper is very exciting because it is the first genome to fill a really big gap, both geographically and temporally, in East Asia,» says paleogeneticist Pontus Skoglund of Harvard Medical School in Boston, who was not involved in the work.
But the woman, who passed her mtDNA down through the Neanderthal lineage, was not necessarily an anatomically modern human, notes paleogeneticist Johannes Krause, a co-author of the study.
«The continuity is remarkable,» says paleogeneticist Carles Lalueza - Fox of the Institute of Evolutionary Biology in Barcelona, who was not involved with the work.
A team led by paleogeneticist Morten Rasmussen of the University of Copenhagen reports the findings online June 18 in Nature.
That corresponds to 10 to 20 percent more Neandertal ancestry than previous estimates — and it may carry consequences for human health and behavior, say paleogeneticist Janet Kelso of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and colleagues.
Secretary General Zahi Hawass of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities teamed up with paleogeneticist Carsten Pusch from the University of Tübingen in Germany, to examine Tutankhamen and 10 royal mummies, including the two fetuses, presumed to be related to him for kinship, inherited disorders and infectious diseases.
Instead, at least one group of hunter - gatherers clung to its culture for a surprisingly long time despite regularly crossing paths with farmers, paleogeneticist Ruth Bollongino of the University of Mainz in Germany and her colleagues report October 10 in Science.
With this history in mind, paleogeneticist Ludovic Orlando at CNRS, the French national research agency in Toulouse, and the University of Copenhagen decided to analyze the ancient DNA of these horses.
«The two Devil's Gate Cave samples are hunter - gatherers and thus the results say little about the spread of the [fully developed] agricultural package,» says paleogeneticist David Reich of Harvard University.
Several paleogeneticists agree that the study has shown remarkable continuity between the ancient cave women and the Ulchi.
IVPP paleogeneticist Qiaomei Fu says she tried to extract DNA from three pieces of the Xuchang fossils but without success.
In the new study, paleogeneticists Johannes Krause and Cosimo Posth of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, test this wild idea with ancient mtDNA from a Neandertal thighbone found in 1937 in the Hohlenstein - Stadel cave (HST) in Germany.
On February 12, 2009 (the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth), paleogeneticist Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany announced that he and a team of researchers had sequenced about 63 percent of the Neanderthal genome.
In the first genome - wide study of an ancient East Asian, researchers led by Qiaomei Fu, a paleogeneticist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, extracted DNA from the thighbone of the Tianyuan Man — so named because he was found in Tianyuan Cave, 56 kilometers southwest of Beijing.
«I find it interesting that... some of the early modern colonizers of Eurasia were successful while others were not,» says co-author Svante Pääbo, a paleogeneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.
Practically nobody believed you could read a Neanderthal's genes until 2010, when the paleogeneticist Svante Pääbo successfully sequenced DNA from three Neanderthal skeletons found in Croatia.
Just a year ago, when Svante Pääbo, a paleogeneticist at the Max Planck Institute in Germany, announced he was going to reconstruct the Neanderthal genome, the project seemed unlikely to succeed.
«Aside from these individuals, it is a fact that sampling for the Eurasian region is sparse for all time periods except the present - day,» says co-author Qiaomei Fu, a paleogeneticist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
«This suggests that it was quite a different disease in the Bronze Age from what it was in medieval times,» says Johannes Krause, a paleogeneticist at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, who was not involved with the study.
Two years ago, Edward Rubin, head of the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, California, approached Svante Pääbo, a paleogeneticist at the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, about applying paleometagenomics to Neandertal DNA.
«It is clearly great that [genetic] data has become available» from these ancient groups, says Marie - France Deguilloux, a paleogeneticist from the University of Bordeaux in France, who adds that having such DNA sequences is «crucial» to tracing the spread of farming to Europe.
The sample of 15 skeletons from Syria is too small to represent all of the early Middle Eastern farming populations, says Guido Brandt, a paleogeneticist at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germany.
«This is the genetic recipe for being a modern human,» says team leader Svante Pääbo, a paleogeneticist at the institute.
So since the idea of sequencing the Neandertal genome became more than a glimmer in a paleogeneticist's eye, some have asked, «Could we, should we, would we, bring this extinct human species back to life?»
Since the idea of sequencing the Neandertal genome became more than a glimmer in a paleogeneticist's eye, some have asked, «Could we, should we, would we, bring this extinct human species back to life?»
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