Maarten Larmuseau
@MHDLarmuseau
Professor in Genetic Genealogy @KU_Leuven Biologist & geneticist inspired by genealogy, history & art
An article about my research on extra-pair paternity @ScienceMagazine. Many thanks @spoke32 and colleagues for the quotes! Hopefully, future visitors to my office @KU_Leuven will be less surprised by a (reproduction) 17th-century painting @WallaceMuseum science.org/content/articl…
Eight healthy babies born after IVF using mitochondrial DNA from third person #mitochondrialdonation nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
Wow! New paper by Qiaomei Fu et al. links the 'Dragon Man' skull to the Denisovans. For the first time, we know what this human relative looked like! science.org/content/articl…
Don't let this keep you from following your interests. If your goal is anything else than enjoying to study the things you are curious about, science may not be the best field for you anyways
The further a scientist moves away from the topic of their previous work, the fewer citations their new work will receive, according to an analysis of millions of scientific papers and patents published in @Nature. go.nature.com/3HdyflX