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Method to predict drug stability could lead to more effective medicines

05 March 2018

Researchers from the UK and Denmark have developed a new method to predict the physical stability of drug candidates, which could help with the development of new and more effective medicines for patients. The technology has been licensed to Cambridge spin-out company TeraView, who are developing it for use in the pharmaceutical industry in order to make medicines that are more easily released in the body.

Ancient genome study identifies traces of indigenous “Taíno” in present-day Caribbean populations

19 February 2018

A thousand-year-old tooth has provided genetic evidence that the so-called “Taíno”, the first indigenous Americans to feel the full impact of European colonisation after Columbus arrived in the New World, still have living descendants in the Caribbean today.

Direct genetic evidence of founding population reveals story of first Native Americans

03 January 2018

Direct genetic traces of the earliest Native Americans have been identified for the first time in a new study. The genetic evidence suggests that people may have entered the continent in a single migratory wave, perhaps arriving more than 20,000 years ago.

Detail of one of the burials from Sunghir, in Russia.

Prehistoric humans are likely to have formed mating networks to avoid inbreeding

05 October 2017

Early humans seem to have recognised the dangers of inbreeding at least 34,000 years ago, and developed surprisingly sophisticated social and mating networks to avoid it, new research has found.

Left: Skull of a Yamnaya, the people who migrated to Central Asia in early Bronze Age and developed the Afanasievo culture. The Afanasievo are one of the Bronze Age groups carrying Y. pestis. Right: Scanning Electron Micrograph Of A Flea

Plague in humans ‘twice as old’ but didn’t begin as flea-borne, ancient DNA reveals

22 October 2015

New research dates plague back to the early Bronze Age, showing it had been endemic in humans across Eurasia for millennia prior to the first recorded global outbreak, and that ancestral plague mutated into its bubonic, flea-borne form between the 2nd and 1st millennium BC.

Kosenki fossil skull, and and illustration of the Kosteni find

Ancient DNA shows earliest European genomes weathered the ice age, and shines new light on Neanderthal interbreeding and a mystery human lineage

06 November 2014

A genome taken from a 36,000 year old skeleton reveals an early divergence of Eurasians once they had left Africa, and allows scientists to better assess the point at which ‘admixture’ - or interbreeding - between Eurasians and Neanderthals occurred. The latest research also points to a previously unknown population lineage as old as the first population separations since humans dispersed out of Africa.

Out of Asia: ancient genome lays to rest origins of Americas’ first humans

12 February 2014

The genome of a child who died some 12,600 years ago in Montana – the oldest known human remains from North America – has been sequenced for the first time.

Articles about 'University of Copenhagen'

Method to predict drug stability could lead to more effective medicines

Ancient genome study identifies traces of indigenous “Taíno” in present-day Caribbean populations

Direct genetic evidence of founding population reveals story of first Native Americans

Prehistoric humans are likely to have formed mating networks to avoid inbreeding

Plague in humans ‘twice as old’ but didn’t begin as flea-borne, ancient DNA reveals

Ancient DNA shows earliest European genomes weathered the ice age, and shines new light on Neanderthal interbreeding and a mystery human lineage

Out of Asia: ancient genome lays to rest origins of Americas’ first humans

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