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Christina Warinner

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Associate Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University

Ancient DNA preserved in the tooth tartar of human fossils encodes microbial metabolites that could be the next antibiotic. Werner/Siemens Foundation

May 4, 2023

Reconstructing ancient bacterial genomes can revive previously unknown molecules – offering a potential source for new antibiotics

Christina Warinner, Harvard University; Alexander Hübner, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and Pierre Stallforth, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

Ancient microbes likely produced natural products their descendants today do not. Tapping into this lost chemical diversity could offer a potential source of new drugs.

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January 11, 2019

We found lapis lazuli hidden in ancient teeth – revealing the forgotten role of women in medieval arts

Anita Radini, University of York; Christina Warinner, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, and Monica Tromp, University of Otago

Male monks were not the sole producers of books throughout the Middle Ages.

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