Published 09/26/2024 7:09:00 p.m.

DNA from 3,600-year-old cheese sequenced by scientists

Scientists have sequenced DNA from 3,600-year-old cheese, the oldest in archaeology, found in the Taklamakan Desert.
The analysis reveals how the Xiaohe people made cheese and used microbes to enhance food.
Researchers discovered that the cheese samples contained species similar to modern kefir grains, offering insights into ancient dairy practices.

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The Independent

Scientists in China extract DNA from world’s oldest cheese – and what it can tell us about modern diets

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week – from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter Scientists have successfully extracted DNA from ancient cheese for the first time, a breakthrough that sheds light on how probiotic bacteria has evolved over thousands of years. Chinese researchers have peeled back the c…

09/26/2024 8:19:13 p.m.·London, United Kingdom

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CNN

DNA from 3,600-year-old cheese sequenced by scientists

Scientists have sequenced DNA from 3,600-year-old cheese, the oldest in the archaeological record. The intact cheese was found with mummified remains in China.

09/25/2024 3:00:18 p.m.·Atlanta, United States

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KRDO

DNA from 3,600-year-old cheese sequenced by scientists

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Bronze Age desert dwellers unearthed from graves in what’s now northwest China were buried with cheese scattered on their heads and necks — perhaps as a snack packed for the afterlife. A decade after the dairy discovery on strikingly intact remains mummified by the Taklamakan Desert’s arid conditions, scientists have extracted and sequenced DNA from the 3,600-year-old cheese, the oldest in the archaeological record. Th…

09/25/2024 3:56:53 p.m.·Colorado Springs, United States

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South China Morning Post

Chinese scientists find world’s oldest cheese buried with Xinjiang mummies

DNA tests suggest Bronze Age people who lived in far west China 3,500 years ago made kefir cheese, challenging beliefs about ancient diets.

09/25/2024 3:00:07 p.m.·Hong Kong

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Sky News UK

Cheese dating back 3,600 years found in Chinese tomb, researchers say

A 3,600-year-old coffin was opened in the Xiaohe Cemetery in Xinjiang, China, during an excavation in 2003 - 21 years later, a team found a substance identified as kefir cheese.

09/26/2024 6:44:00 p.m.·United Kingdom

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Noticias ao Minuto

DNA of the world's oldest cheese extracted from Bronze Age mummies

Scientists extracted a chain of DNA from what they believe to be the oldest cheese in the world, through Bronze Age mummies buried in a Chinese cemetery owned by the Xiaohe people. Scholars found kefir cheese scattered around the heads and necks of corpses about 3,300 and 3,600 years old in the Tarim basin, in northwestern China, according to research published in the journal Cell this Wednesday. Although the substance was first observed two dec…

09/25/2024 10:49:40 p.m.·Portugal

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