# Tracking ancient diseases using ... plaque

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2012
- Speaker: Christina Warinner
- Year: 2012
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Biology, Medicine and health, Society and politics, History
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/christina_warinner_tracking_ancient_diseases_using_plaque)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Imagine what we could learn about diseases by studying the history of human disease, from ancient hominids to the present. But how? TED Fellow Christina Warinner is an achaeological geneticist, and she's found a spectacular new tool -- the microbial DNA in fossilized dental plaque.

## Lectures

1. [Tracking ancient diseases using ... plaque](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/christina_warinner_tracking_ancient_diseases_using_plaque/4c4c4f6d00b0), 6 min (TED's player)