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New Ice Age species just dropped! 🦴🧬 Check out our study in @CurrentBiology where we identified an extinct megafaunal species previously unknown to genomics from small non-diagnostic bone fragments at Denisova Cave and southern Siberia.
cell.com/current-biology/ful…
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🚨 Ancient DNA Alert 🚨
Do you depend on BWA aln, and worry that the world’s HPC clusters are pivoting towards GPUs?
Fear no more!
We here present G-ALN, a GPU implementation that is >6 times faster and produces byte-identical outputs to BWA aln!
biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
The finding of a separate lineage mirrors that in archaic humans 💀 such as Denisovans in the region and emphasizes the Altai as a biodiversity hotspot. The survival of yak X across glacial-interglacial cycles also highlights the Altai as a long-term refugium.
Just one week until the Early Bird registration for #ICP2026 closes🐦📝
The limited spots for the (free) gala dinner at the Stockholm City Hall are running out *fast*.
Register now 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org/r…
A small chunk of woolly rhino meat was found inside the stomach of this 14,000 year old Ice Age wolf puppy 🤯
Read the paper below to learn how sequencing a genome from the puppy's last meal yielded novel insights into the woolly rhino's extinction:
academic.oup.com/gbe/article…
ALT Photo credit: Mietje Germonpré
Early Bird registration for #ICP2026 is now OPEN🐦📝
IMPORTANT: places for the Conference Dinner at Stockholm City Hall (free of charge) are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
Secure your spot by registering soon 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org/r…
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Video of woolly mammoth leg discovered in the Siberian permafrost!
Researchers from #CpgSthlm and SciLifeLab have now, for the first time ever, identified signatures of gene activity in frozen mammoth remains!
cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092…
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Video of woolly mammoth leg discovered in the Siberian permafrost!
Researchers from #CpgSthlm and SciLifeLab have now, for the first time ever, identified signatures of gene activity in frozen mammoth remains!
cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092…
Centre for Palaeogenetics retweeted
✅ RNA?
✅ Ancient RNA?
✅ Ancient RNA from woolly mammoth!
#FossilFriday 🦣 🧪
cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092…
Centre for Palaeogenetics retweeted
🦣🧬🦣 🤯💥 We are pleased to share our new paper about ancient RNA expression profiles from the Woolly Mammoth, now published in Cell @CellPressNews
cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092…
If you want to know more, read the 🧵 below:
#mammoth #RNA #DNA #Pleistocene
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Abstract submission is now open for the 1st International Conference on Palaeogenomics!
June 23–26 2026, in Stockholm.
Join researchers from across the field for 4 days and >100 talks (+ posters)!
Submit abstracts here 👉
icp2026.palaeogenomics.org/a…
Deadline: Nov 30
The world's oldest bacterial DNA found in a million-year-old mammoth!
New results from researchers at #CpgSthlm published in Cell!
Paper:
cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092…
🚨We're thrilled to announce that the FIRST International Conference on Palaeogenomics will happen in Stockholm, Sweden, June 23-26, 2026
Topics will span from humans to wildlife and sediments 🧬🦣💀🦠 bring it on!
RT, save the dates, and check icp2026.palaeogenomics.org for news.
NOBEL SYMPOSIA
We are delighted to announce two exciting public talks on Ancient DNA at Aula Magna (Stockholm University) on May 30th, 10:00-12:30h.
🦣⬅️ ”Can we bring back the woolly mammoth?” by @bonesandbugs
🐎✋”The taming of the horse” by @LudovicLorlando
All welcome!
New paper🚨
A team co-led by #cpgsthlm's researcher @jcchacond has analysed DNA from a large number of mammoths across a million-year timescale. 🦣🧬
The findings include the discovery and analysis of the oldest known woolly #mammoth in North America!
👉academic.oup.com/mbe/article…
ALT Pictures of a woolly mammoth molar dated to 216kya. The earliest in North America.
By analysing these very old mitogenomes together with >200 previously published ones, we were able to detect long-lost genetic diversity in the mammoth lineage during the last million years and to show how this loss coincides with past demographic and climatic changes.
ALT A woolly mammoth tooth in the ground.
Finally, in addition to recovering these million-year-old mitogenomes, we also present an improved DNA-based framework 🧬📈 for dating ancient samples beyond the limit of radiocarbon dating, which can facilitate more accurate reconstructions of species’ evolutionary histories!
ALT A mammoth tusk sticking out of the sediment.