Topic: research

The OCSEAN Summer School 2024 is taking place in the University of Tartu and is hosted in part by the Institute of Genomics.

On 5.-8. centuries AD the Frankish state in Central Europe was ruled by the Merovingian dynasty, which gave its name to the entire era.

In a new study, researchers have found differences in Denisovan DNA in the genomes of two distinct populations in Papua New Guinea - differences that might have contributed to adaptation to diverse environmental challenges.

On 11 June, the Estonian Biobank, University of Tartu, launched the portal MinuGeenivaramu.

Andres Metspalu, Professor of Genomics and Biobanking and Professor of Biotechnology was elected a member of the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology section of Academia Europaea.

The Core Facility of Genomics at the Institute of Genomics received new PacBio HiFi RevioTM sequencers. These will soon be used to analyse the whole genomes of 10,000 gene donors to the Estonian Biobank.

1. jaanuaril algas Euroopa Komisjoni projekt POINT, mille raames uuritakse Covid-19 pikaajalist tervisemõju.

Over the next seven years, the government will fund ten centres of excellence addressing scientific issues of importance to Estonia. The University of Tartu has tight connections with all of them.

What was discovered in genomics in 2023? How did biobank participants contribute to the advancement of science?

In a new study published in Nature, scientists used spatial genetic modelling to test key hypotheses about the expansion of Bantu-speaking populations across the African continent.