2018 REICH, David (1973 – )
Who we are and how we got here: Ancient DNA and the new science of the human past.
GMN 10145 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12334
2018 PÄÄBO, Svante (1955 – ); SLON, Viviane; MAFESSONI, Fabrizio; VERNOT, Benjamin; ET AL
The genome of the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father.
Paleogenomic study of a single bone fragment from a female hominin found in the Denisova Cave in the Altai mountains of Russia provided "direct evidence for genetic mixture between Neanderthals and Denisovans on at le…
GMN 14099 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16410
2019 ARMSTRONG, Gregory L.; MACCANNELL, Duncan R.; TAYLOR, Jill; ET AL
Pathogen genomics in public health.
"An important transformation is under way in public health. Next-generation sequencing (also called “high-throughput sequencing”) is reshaping communicable disease surveillance, allowing for earlier detection and more…
GMN 11398 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13597
2019 ALMEIDA, Alexandre; MITCHELL, Alex L.; BOLAND, Miguel; ET AL
A new genomic blueprint of the human gut microbiota.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Almeida, Mitchell, Boland.... Abstract: "The composition of the human gut microbiota is linked to health and disease, but knowledge of individual microbial species is n…
GMN 11462 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13661
2020 DOUDNA, Jennifer Anne (1964 – ); AL-SHAYEB, Basem; SACHDEVA, Rohan; CHEN, Lin-Xin; ET AL
Clades of huge phages from across Earth's ecosystems.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Al-Shayeb, Sachdeva, Chen.... Doudna. Open access, available from nature.com at this link. This paper was a collaboration of about 50 scientists of diverse regions and …
GMN 11877 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14081
2020 HOLMES, Edward Charles (1965 – ); ZHANG, Yong-Zhen (Zhang Yongzhen) (1964 – )
Novel 2019 coronavirus genome.
https://virological.org/t/novel-2019-coronavirus-genome/319 "Novel 2019 coronavirus genome "10th January 2020 "This posting is communicated by Edward C. Holmes, University of Sydney on behalf of the consortium led by …
GMN 13485 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15759
2020 EVANS, John H. (1965 – )
The human gene editing debate.
"Provides a history of the debate about gene editing, a summary of the ethics, and a proposal for moving forward. Re-conceptualizes the historical discussion about gene editing in the context of today's widespread use…
GMN 13776 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16063
2020 PÄÄBO, Svante (1955 – ); ZEBERG, Hugo
The major genetic risk factor for severe COVID-19 is inherited from Neanderthals.
Expanding on previous findings by a genome wide association study of severe COVID-19, specifically with respiratory failure which had found that a gene cluster residing on chromosome 3 had a significant association wi…
GMN 14098 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16409
2022 NURK, Sergei; KOREN, Sergei; RHIE, Arang; MIGA, Karen Elizabeth Hayden; ET AL
The complete sequence of a human genome.
The first sequence of the complete human genome, telomere to telomere, including transcriptional and epigenetic state of the repeat elements, adding 8% novel genome information left unresolved since the 2001 draft seq…
GMN 14022 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16329
12963 PAULING, Linus Carl (1901 – 1994); ZUCKERKANDL, Émile (1922 – 2013)
Chemical paleogenetics: Molecular "restoration studies' of extinct forms of life.
Coinage of the term "paleogenetics" in what may be the first publication on the possibility of reconstructing extinct life forms through molecular biology. "Attention is attracted to the possibility of reconstructing …
GMN 14368 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16700
