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Tag Archives: dna

Can DNA tests prove a person’s nationality?

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Written by Sarah Abel 22/08/2018 Tags: CBSA dna migrants nationality refugees

In this post, Sarah Abel discusses recent reports of commercial DNA ancestry tests being used to investigate the origins of refugees. Continue reading →

Can DNA testing end racism?

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Written by Sarah Abel 25/09/2017 Tags: Charlottesville dna extremism far-right racism white nationalism white supremacy

Post-doc Sarah Abel discusses the impact of DNA ancestry testing on White nationalist communities, and explores to what extent genetics can help tackle racism.

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Could Erasers Revolutionise the Study of Ancient Manuscripts?

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Written by Pierpaolo Maisano Delser 28/08/2017 Tags: ancient manuscript dna eraser gospel parchment york

Post-doc Bart Lambert reports on how to get DNA from the York Gospels without destroying the tiniest piece of parchment.
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Recent Posts

  • CitiGen PL Hannes Schroeder presents paper at workshop in Barcelona 12/12/2019
  • CitiGen postdoc Sarah Abel to present at AAA conference 15/11/2019
  • Can DNA really tell us who we are? 27/09/2019
  • Sarah Abel and Hannes Schroeder participate in the HERA closing conference in Gdansk 10/09/2019


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 This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 649307.

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CitiGen is an international research project that aims to study how modern and ancient genomic data are being used to shape public understandings of the past.

Headquartered at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, CitiGen involves academic partners from Iceland, Ireland, and the UK, as well as non-academic partners from the fields of genetic ancestry testing, family tree research, and public engagement with science.

The project is funded by the Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) Joint Research Programme “Uses of the Past”.