Using bone fragments, some no bigger than a finger, California State University, Northridge anthropologist Hélène Rougier and an interdisciplinary team of international researchers have discovered that the last Neanderthals in Europe all descended from one lineage. 

As a changing climate continues to warm the planet and thaws ancient permafrost, some people are concerned that long-dormant pathogens, or “zombie viruses,” could emerge from the newly thawed ground, unleashing new epidemics or pandemics on the world.

CSUN students took center stage at a National Institutes of Health conference and presented the results of their own research studies to an audience of medical professionals and prospective medical students.