I took part to the shooting of a french documentary (52′) entitled “Archéologues de l’ADN”  directed by François-Xavier Busnel for Chromatiques Editions. Scenes were shot during the autopsy of baby mammoth Khroma, held in Le Puy-en-Velay (France) in August 2010. After TV broadcast, it was released in DVD today. Here is the teaser of the [...]

Gaël, Marc and I have been pretty busy talking with SAIAB and Isimangaliso Reserve about our current project on coelacanths. That offered us a nice trip in South African lands. If everything works through, I should be able to let you know more about it soon.

by Régis Debruyne With the rise of the second generation techniques of sequencing, the illusion has spread that the sequence data produced in the field of paleogenetics/paleogenomics would soon become error-free. It has repeatedly been claimed that the new methods available were more « performant » than their predecessors to overcome the inherent difficulties tied [...]