Read more about the article MEETING OF CULTURES: Indonesian Island Was Human Melting Pot With DNA From 16 Ancient Peoples
Cave entrance of the Topogaro 2 site, one of the cave sites of the Topogaro complex located in Central Sulawesi. Topogaro 2 has been excavated since 2016. Human remains from the past 2,000 years were found in the upper layers. (Rintaro Ono/Newsflash)
History

MEETING OF CULTURES: Indonesian Island Was Human Melting Pot With DNA From 16 Ancient Peoples

An international team of experts has sequenced the DNA from 16 ancient people and found that a group of Indonesian islands were a melting pot for humans thousands of years ago. The Wallacean islands, in what is now Eastern Indonesia, have a long and rich history of being home to…

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June 14, 2022
Read more about the article DNA Testing Confirms Identities Of Six Of Cannibal Killers Female Victims After Cops Find 4300 Human Bones
Andres “N”, 72, suspected of committing approximately 30 acts of femicide in Atizapan de Zaragoza, when he was transferred to the Tenango del Valle prison, after an attempted attack led by inmates of the prison he was held in, Mexico, in May, 2021. (SSEdomex/Newsflash)
Crime

DNA Testing Confirms Identities Of Six Of Cannibal Killers Female Victims After Cops Find 4300 Human Bones

Six families have been notified that the remains of their loved ones were among 4,300 human bones found at the home of a cannibal serial killer after DNA testing. Andres Filomeno Mendoza Celis, 72, who worked as a butcher, has admitted to killing around 30 women. And the names of…

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February 24, 2022
Read more about the article Chunk Of DNA Inherited From Neanderthals Makes Humans More Likely To Get COVID But Less Likely To Get HIV
DNA analytics in the lab. (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology/Newsflash)
Health

Chunk Of DNA Inherited From Neanderthals Makes Humans More Likely To Get COVID But Less Likely To Get HIV

A piece of DNA that many humans have inherited from the Neanderthals makes it more likely to get a serious bout of COVID-19 but 27 percent less likely to get HIV, scientists say. The study was conducted by Hugo Zeberg, age not reported, of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden,…

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February 23, 2022
Read more about the article Decade-Old Murder Case Reopened After DNA On Chewing Gum Found On Victims Bed Matched To Suspect
Giuliano Gilardi, 61, pensioner stabbed to death on 27th December, in Senin, Italy. (Newsflash)
Crime

Decade-Old Murder Case Reopened After DNA On Chewing Gum Found On Victims Bed Matched To Suspect

A 10-year-old murder case has been reopened after DNA on chewing gum found in the victim's bed was linked to a suspect. Giuliano Gilardi, 61, was stabbed to death in his apartment in the town of Saint-Christophe in the north-western Italian region of Aosta Valley on the morning of 27th…

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January 27, 2022
Read more about the article Dead Body Of Missing Girl, 3, Found, With DNA Testing Exposing Her Arrested Granddad As Her Biological Father
Muslume Yagal (3) who disappeared on 10 November 2021 in Mersin, Turkey and was found dead, in a photo with her grandfather Hasan Yagal (center). (@hasan.yagal.52/Newsflash)
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Dead Body Of Missing Girl, 3, Found, With DNA Testing Exposing Her Arrested Granddad As Her Biological Father

A three-year-old girl whose lifeless body was found after a 10-day-long search is suspected of having been murdered by her grandfather, who has turned out to be her biological father. Muslume Yagal, the sixth of seventh children, had travelled with her family to the neighbourhood of Yanisli in the district…

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December 3, 2021