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Molecular Analyses of Oral Polio Vaccine Samples

We analyzed several early oral polio vaccine pools to test the "OPV/AIDS hypothesis". Our analysis found no evidence for the presence of chimpanzee DNA, but ...

McMaster Ancient DNA Centre helps unravel the mysteries surround the life and death of Jumbo – the world’s first elephant superstar

The McMaster Ancient DNA Centre is pleased to have been a part of two documentaries elucidating the life history of Jumbo the elephant – Jumbo: The Life of an ...

Smallpox and Malaria findings featured in the current issue of World Archaeology

Recent work by the McMaster University Ancient DNA Centre and collaborators on the sequencing of a smallpox genome from a 17th century Lithuanian child mummy ...

Ancient DNA and Forensic Analysis Questions Pablo Neruda’s Cause of Death

Members of the McMaster Ancient DNA Centre and forensic researchers in Denmark presented their initial findings on the putative causes surround Pablo Neruda’s ...

CBC Hamilton - Made in Hamilton Series: A Mammoth of a Genome

Emil's talk on the myths, misconceptions, and ethics of paleogenomics and de-extinction.

McMaster Ancient DNA Centre on Global News The Morning Show

Katherine Eaton and Matthew Emery discuss ancient DNA research, de-extinction, and the possible implications and consequences of some of the work done by the ...

Museum of London Report on the DNA Analyses of Four Roman Individuals

A team consisting of researchers at McMaster University and MYcroarray (Ann Arbor) conducted genetic analysis on four Roman individuals on display at the ...

Researchers hope Pablo Neruda’s bones hold answer to poet’s death

McMaster Ancient DNA Centre joins international collaborative effort to determine the cause of Pablo Neruda's death.

McMaster aDNA analysis aids in identification of University of Madison-Wisconsin mastodons

Graduate students Emil Karpinski and Jonathan Hughes resolve lingering misidentification questions surrounding Boaz and Anderson Mills mastodons.

Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) discovery in mammals: a targeted-gene approach

Here we describe the use of 'CATS' (or 'EPIC') primers for the detection of novel SNPs in non-model mammals. We observed that PCR success was highest in ...