A collaborative effort between universities and national archives has produced a searchable database of 12 million parish records, enabling population-scale longitudinal studies previously impossible.
Scientists have adapted CRISPR genome-editing tools to create a molecular "family tree" within individual organisms, tracking cell lineage with unprecedented precision.
Researchers have sequenced the genomes of over 500 individuals from Bronze Age burial sites across Eurasia, providing unprecedented insight into prehistoric migration and intermarriage between populations.