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  The European heritage of the Greenlandic people

  2021.05.25

  It is well-known that the Greenlandic population mainly has Inuit ancestry, and that many Greenlanders also have some European ancestry. A new genetic study, just published in the journal Current Biology and led by…
  
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  Hundreds of antibiotic resistant genes found in the gastrointestinal tracts of Danish infants

  2021.05.20

  Danish one-year-olds carry several hundred antibiotic resistant genes in their bacterial gut flora according to a new study from the University of Copenhagen. The presence of these genes is partly attributable to…
  
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  The diploid genome assemblies in marmoset shows huge variations

  2021.04.28

  The international consortium today announces a series of publications in a special collection of Nature that resulted from the first phase of the Vertebrate Genome Project (VGP) to release 16 high quality reference…
  
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  Beetles that pee themselves to death could be tomorrow’s pest control

  2021.04.19

  Various beetle species have gobbled through grain stores and weakened food production worldwide since ancient times. Now, researchers at the University of Copenhagen have discovered a better way of targeting and…
  
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  The Trouble of Being Tall

  2021.03.17

  The giraffe is a truly puzzling animal. With its exceptional anatomy and suite of evolutionary adaptations, the giraffe is an outstanding case of animal evolution and physiology. Now, an international team of researcher…
  

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