Ethical practices in human microbiome research have failed to keep pace with scientific
advances in the field. Researchers seeking to 'preserve'microbial species associated with …

Although microbiome science is relatively young, our knowledge of human-microbiome
interactions is growing rapidly and has already begun to transform our understanding of …

This perspective draws on the record of ancient pathogen genomes and microbiomes
illuminating patterns of infectious disease over the course of the Holocene in order to …

Coprolites, or mummified feces, are valuable sources of information on ancient cultures as
they contain ancient DNA (aDNA). In this study, we analyzed ancient plant DNA isolated …

In recent years, postgenomic research, and the fields of epigenetics and microbiome
science in particular, have described novel ways in which social processes of racialization …

Archaeological LiDAR has evolved into an indispensable component of archaeological
prospection and landscape archaeology. However, it is frequently employed as a black-box …

The gut microbiome has coevolved with humans to aid in physiologic functions and prevent
disease. An increasing prevalence of gut dysbiosis in modern society exists and has strong …

Archaeological microbiology is an emerging, interdisciplinary area of archaeological
science, where information from bacteria, archaea, viruses, parasites, and protozoans …

Ancient deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) may be thousands of years old with significant
degradation from environmental exposure, as is typical for DNA from archaeological …

Context: Since most scientists tend to investigate live biological samples, there is
inadequate data on efficient molecular techniques for the anthropological sciences. In this …