Laboratory News

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• The Paleo-DNA Laboratory works on ancient remains for controversial documentary.

• Paleo-DNA Laboratory highlighted in the current issue of Lab Business Magazine:

Article Exerpt:

Lakehead’s Paleo-DNA Laboratory:
Modern genetics solves ancient mysteries

By Erica Tennenhouse

Few labs can boast that they have analyzed what might be the DNA of Jesus Christ himself. But earlier this year, the Paleo-DNA Laboratory at Lakehead University was challenged with exactly that task, when bones from the Talpiot Tomb near Jerusalem, deemed by archaeologists to likely have belonged to Jesus and Mary Magdalene, were shipped off to the lab.Stephen Fratpietro, technical manager of the lab, explains that... click here for full article

• 1917: The Missing - The History Channel Documentary on the World War I Missing in Action Soldier Identification with future broadcast dates

• TBSource coverage for documentary '1917: The Missing'

• Lakehead University DNA Expert Heads WW1 MIA Soldier Expedition to Vimy Ridge.

• National Post coverage of WWI MIA Soldier Identification

• The History of the Battle of Vimy Ridge from Veterans Affairs Canada