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Two researchers with a connection to the DNRF receive the Carlsberg Foundation Research Prize 2021
Professor Dorthe Berntsen from the Center on Autobiographical Memory Research (CON AMORE) at Aarhus University and Professor Eske Willerslev from the Center for GeoGenetics (CGG)…
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DNRF publication highlights research’s usefulness to society from a new perspective
Does society benefit when its country’s smartest citizens spend many years, and often a lot of money, going down new roads in search of understanding…
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New method bursts time frame: Genetic information extracted from a 1.77-million-year-old tooth from ancient rhino
The analysis of a fossil tooth from a 1.77-million-year-old rhino has launched a new molecular method that, for the first time, examines fossil species that…
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Other June News in Brief
Susanne Mandrup in charge of a new large study on fat cells published in Nature Genetics Professor Susanne Mandrup, head of the DNRF center ATLAS…
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31,000-year-old milk teeth reveal unknown ancient people from Siberia
The discovery of 31,000-year-old milk teeth from two children found in northeastern Siberia reveal an unknown population that lived in the area long before previously…
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CMEC and Center for GeoGenetics are part of developing a method to fight snail fever
A method developed by researchers from the University of Copenhagen can track the feared snail fever parasites in water samples, a new study in PNAS…
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PNAS study: Greenland’s ice sheet loses six times more mass today than in the 1980s
Post-doc Anders A. Bjørk, from the DNRF’s Center for GeoGenetics, is part of an international research project that has measured how much of Greenland’s ice…
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A possible second large meteorite crater found under the ice in Greenland
In a new study published in the scientific journal Geophysical Research Letters, Professor Kurt H. Kjær from the DNRF’s Center for GeoGenetics, together with American…
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Seven talented researchers with a connection to the DNRF are among this year’s Villum Young Investigators
Out of 21 researchers selected as this year’s Villum Young Investigators are seven researchers with a connection to the DNRF. The Villum Young Investigators program…
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Carlsberg Foundation’s Semper Ardens grants go to six researchers affiliated with the DNRF
Two heads of center, two Niels Bohr Professors, a former head of center, and a group leader from a DNRF center have been granted six…
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DNA analysis of world’s oldest natural mummy unlocks secrets of Ice Age tribes in the Americas
A legal battle over a 10,600 year old ancient skeleton – called the ‘Spirit Cave Mummy’ – has ended after advanced DNA sequencing found it…
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Eske Willerslev receives Semper Ardens grant to do research on ancient rice genes
DNRF head of center Eske Willerslev, from the Center for GeoGenetics at Copenhagen University and Cambridge University, has received a Semper Ardens grant from the Carlsberg Foundation for a project…
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Ancient pygmy genes traced in Southeast Asia’s genetic landscape
The head of the DNRF Center for GeoGenetics, Eske Willerslev, is leading an international research team that has mapped genetic immigration in Southeast Asia. The…
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Head of Center Eske Willerslev and Professor Thomas Werge have been granted DKK 60 million from the Lundbeck Foundation to study the evolution of brain diseases
The head of the DNRF’s Center for GeoGenetics Eske Willerslev and Professor Thomas Werge have received DKK 60 million from the Lundbeck Foundation to fund…
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Horse domestication and hepatitis: Three articles from Eske Willerslev in Nature and Science
Head of center Eske Willerslev, from the Center for GeoGenetics, has published three scientific articles on the same day in the prestigious journals Nature and…
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