McMaster Ancient DNA News

Research paper outlining the usefulness of broad microarrays as a rapid and inexpensive paleopathological screening tool for ancient samples.

Study validating the use of reference-free bait synthesis for whole-genome enrichment.

NPR Shots story on work from the McMaster Ancient DNA Centre's identification of the Justinian Plague.

National Geographic story highlighting work done at the McMaster Ancient DNA Centre on the Black Death and the Justinian Plague.

Nature News story on the strain differences between ancient and modern Cholera.

The New York Times article on McMaster Ancient DNA Centre researchers' identification of cholera in 165 preserved intestines.

McMaster Ancient DNA Centre research on the use of quantitative PCR to predict hybridization capture success.

McMaster Ancient DNA researchers and collaborators identified Yersinia pestis as the causative agent behind the Plague of Justinian. Notably, the the Justinian strain is unique from strains in later pandemics and has either gone extinct or remains unsampled in wild rodent reservoirs.

Research paper on the identification and retrieval of Vibrio cholerae from preserved intestines of a victim of the 1849 cholera outbreak in Philadelphia, part of the second cholera pandemic.