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Meet Eske Willerslev at world premiere of new documentary 'Remains'

Join Eske Willerslev on a research tour of the US where 10,000-year-old bones may tell us about the…

Danmarks Geologipris goes to Globe researcher

The Geological Society of Denmark has awarded their annual ‘Denmark’s Geology Prize’ to Associate…

Elite Research winner: “You shouldn’t count yourself out just because you don’t think you are quite there yet”

Today, newly appointed Professor Eline Lorenzen receives the Ministry of Higher Education and…

Medicinal biodiversity

Nature’s future pharmacy in peril

For thousands of years, people have relied on the healing properties of plants – in some places the…

A time machine for anticipating bird diversity

Genetic bird data shows patterns of trait diversity over the distant past and under a previous…

INFRASTRUCTURE GRANT

Building a Danish reference genome sequencing infrastructure

Centre Director Tom Gilbert is thrilled with a new opportunity to build a local reference genome…

Early forests did not change the atmospheric CO2 level very much

Earth scientists from University of Copenhagen have discovered that the atmosphere contained far…

A visit from Frederiksberg Gymnasium

In late November a biotechnology class from Frederiksberg Gymnasium visited our labs and got an…

Ancient environmental DNA

Discovery of world’s oldest DNA breaks record by one million years

Two-million-year-old DNA has been identified for the first time - opening a ‘game-changing’ new…

One year, five Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions fellowships

Orchids, toads, 3D folding of DNA, the genomic consequences of social structure, and squirrel…