An international team led by researchers at McMaster University, working in collaboration with the University of Paris Cité, has identified and reconstructed the first ancient genome of E. coli, using fragments extracted from the gallstone of a 16th century mummy.
New research finds megafaunal collapse occurred before major environmental shift, small pockets of mammoths and horse adapted to change.
McMaster researchers have developed a new tool that could help provide early warning of rare and unknown viruses and identify potentially deadly bacterial pathogens which cause sepsis.