Between Oct. 1, 2023 and Sept. 30, 2024, Princeton was awarded over $58 million from the NIH. In 2024 alone, grants from the NIH led to efforts such as a Princeton-led group of scientists mapping the ...

Modern humans and Neanderthals interacted over a 200,000-year period, says geneticist Joshua Akey. Skip to main content Princeton University. Menu. News. News Submenu. All Stories; Search. Search ...

Modern humans have been interbreeding with Neanderthals for more than 200,000 years, report an international team led by Princeton University’s Josh Akey and Southeast University’s Liming Li.

A Princeton University professor is trying to let dog owners get a head start on knowing their dog’s lifespan. Joshua Akey has started the Dog Aging Project, which has already signed up 32,000 ...

Joshua Akey, a professor in the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, uses "genetic archaeology" to reveal a larger picture of how we evolved as a species. The research divulges a complex ...

Now, researchers at Princeton University present evidence of Neanderthal ancestry in African populations too, and its origin provides new insights into human history. ... The project was led by Joshua ...

Akey’s team analyzed DNA from 2,504 present-day Africans, Europeans and East Asians. Each person’s DNA was compared with DNA extracted by other researchers from Neandertal fossils found in ...

Princeton researchers led by Joshua Akey discovered that all modern humans carry some Neanderthal ancestry in their DNA ... Credit: Matilda Luk, Princeton University Office of Communications.

There’s more Neanderthal ancestry in Africa than we thought,” says Joshua Akey at Princeton University, who led the study. Neanderthals arose about 430,000 years ago, ...

Joshua Akey, a professor in the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, uses "genetic archaeology" to reveal a larger picture of how we evolved as a species. The research divulges a complex ...

The technique was developed by scientists in the lab of Joshua Akey, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University.