A COLOURED map of the British Isles, designed to illustrate several ... The more important towns are shown with indications of size, but there seems to be a little confusion in the use of the ...

The People of the British Isles (PoBI) project examined differences at more than 500,000 positions in the DNA of more than 2,000 people from the UK, thus creating the most detailed genetic map of ...

The first in-depth genetic scan of the British Isles shows their violent history ... whose four grandparents had stayed put in their home towns or villages. “What was striking was the pattern ...

The Darwin Tree of Life Project, led by the Wellcome Sanger Institute, aims to sequence the genomes of 60,000 species that live in, and around, the British Isles The Natural History ... sequence the ...

Genetic map of the British Isles. Crown copyright and database right ... using people whose four grandparents were all born within 80km of each other. They also analysed data from 6,209 ...

We all have a lot of civic pride" Previous winners of the award, which selects towns from the British Isles, include Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire, Galway in Ireland and Richmond in North Yorkshire.

Scientists in Cambridge and Norwich are taking part in an unprecedented project to map the genomes of all life on the British Isles. The University of Cambridge, Wellcome Sanger Institute and ...