Researchers at McMaster's Ancient DNA Centre studied more than 600 genome sequences of Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes plague
As his former mentor and graduate supervisor Svante Pääbo receives the Nobel Prize for medicine, McMaster evolutionary geneticist Hendrik Poinar talks about the ways in which Pääbo fundamentally shaped his own groundbreaking research.
An international team of researchers analyzed centuries-old DNA from victims and survivors of the Black Death pandemic, identifying key genetic differences that determined who lived and who died, and how those aspects of our immune systems have continued to evolve since that time.
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