For the Human Genome Project, researchers collected blood (female) or sperm (male) samples from a large number of donors. Only a few samples were processed as DNA resources, and the source names ...
in fact it is the best preserved modern human bone from the Pleistocene for DNA retrieval. This allowed the team to obtain a high-quality genome from this male individual, referred to as Ranis13.
Scientists say they have recovered the oldest known Homo sapiens DNA from human remains found ... are unevenly distributed across the human genome. Some regions, which the scientists call ...
A pair of studies analysed samples of modern human and Neanderthal ... which can be seen in present-day DNA. About 2 per cent of the genetic blueprint, or genome, of non-African people living ...