Emerging approaches to DNA data storage: challenges and prospects

A Doricchi, CM Platnich, A Gimpel, F Horn, M Earle… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
With the total amount of worldwide data skyrocketing, the global data storage demand is
predicted to grow to 1.75× 1014 GB by 2025. Traditional storage methods have difficulties …

Human-specific genetics: new tools to explore the molecular and cellular basis of human evolution

AA Pollen, U Kilik, CB Lowe, JG Camp - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Our ancestors acquired morphological, cognitive and metabolic modifications that enabled
humans to colonize diverse habitats, develop extraordinary technologies and reshape the …

Palaeogenomics of upper palaeolithic to neolithic European hunter-gatherers

C Posth, H Yu, A Ghalichi, H Rougier, I Crevecoeur… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Modern humans have populated Europe for more than 45,000 years,. Our knowledge of the
genetic relatedness and structure of ancient hunter-gatherers is however limited, owing to …

Evolution of immune genes is associated with the Black Death

J Klunk, TP Vilgalys, CE Demeure, X Cheng… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Infectious diseases are among the strongest selective pressures driving human evolution,.
This includes the single greatest mortality event in recorded history, the first outbreak of the …

Grey wolf genomic history reveals a dual ancestry of dogs

A Bergström, DWG Stanton, UH Taron, L Frantz… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The grey wolf (Canis lupus) was the first species to give rise to a domestic population, and
they remained widespread throughout the last Ice Age when many other large mammal …

The genetic history of the Southern Arc: A bridge between West Asia and Europe

I Lazaridis, S Alpaslan-Roodenberg, A Acar, A Açıkkol… - Science, 2022 - science.org
By sequencing 727 ancient individuals from the Southern Arc (Anatolia and its neighbors in
Southeastern Europe and West Asia) over 10,000 years, we contextualize its Chalcolithic …

Genomic insights into the formation of human populations in East Asia

CC Wang, HY Yeh, AN Popov, HQ Zhang… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The deep population history of East Asia remains poorly understood owing to a lack of
ancient DNA data and sparse sampling of present-day people,. Here we report genome …

Large-scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Age

N Patterson, M Isakov, T Booth, L Büster, CE Fischer… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Present-day people from England and Wales have more ancestry derived from early
European farmers (EEF) than did people of the Early Bronze Age. To understand this, here …

The source of the Black Death in fourteenth-century central Eurasia

MA Spyrou, L Musralina, GA Gnecchi Ruscone… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The origin of the medieval Black Death pandemic (ad 1346–1353) has been a topic of
continuous investigation because of the pandemic's extensive demographic impact and long …

[HTML][HTML] Reconstruction of ancient microbial genomes from the human gut

MC Wibowo, Z Yang, M Borry, A Hübner, KD Huang… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Loss of gut microbial diversity,,,,–in industrial populations is associated with chronic
diseases, underscoring the importance of studying our ancestral gut microbiome. However …