Crinkle the Monkey's genome could help save species
Staffordshire's Trentham Monkey Park resident is first macaque monkey to have its genome sequenced.
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Researchers sequence first genome from Ancient Egypt
Researchers from LJMU's School of Biological and Environmental Sciences and The Francis Crick Institute uncover new evidence of migration from the Middle East to the empire of Ancient Egypt
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£2m study to open doors in synthetic biology
Dr Femi Olorunniji partners University of Chicago in search for 'synthetic biology toolkit'
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Discovery of a new great ape: The Tapanuli orangutan
An international team of researchers have just described a new ape species, the Tapanuli orangutan, find out more about this exciting discovery here.
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Genetics plays huge part in animal migration - study
Reindeer from one 'genetic ancestry' travel ten times further on average than others
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Genes reveal how our pelvis evolved for upright walking
From 3-4 million years ago the pattern points to bipedalism
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Go ahead for new treatment for Black Bone Disease
A new drug to treat the ultra-rare genetic disease alkaptonuria (AKU) has been given the go-ahead following research in Liverpool.
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DNA-study shows the Guanches originated from North Africa
The aboriginal inhabitants of the Canary Islands, commonly known as the Guanches, originated from North Africa. A team of international researchers has now confirmed.
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Megalith tombs were family graves in European Stone Age
In a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, an international research team, led by Uppsala University with co-author Linus Girdland-Flink of LJMU, discovered kin relationships among Stone Age individuals buried in megalithic tombs on Ireland and in Sweden.
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New funding for The Pandemic Institute’s Liverpool – Hong Kong Partnership
LJMU, University of Liverpool and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine partner three Hong Kong universities after investment from The Shaw Foundation.