Genetic data strengthens the case that humans first settled Sahul around 60,000 years ago, using multiple seafaring routes.
From a Tuskegee Study apology to vaccine distrust, Benita Harris spent her career at the CDC battling racial disparity in ...
Faced with a syphilis outbreak beginning in 2019, Alberta researchers tried something new to reach the affected and ...
The benefits of National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded research are substantial. The NIH could increase such benefits by ...
Ancient DNA from a 5,500-year-old skeleton in Colombia reveals the oldest genome of "Treponema pallidum" yet, sharpening ...
Ancient DNA from 5,500-year-old remains in Colombia reveals syphilis-related bacteria existed some 3,000 years earlier than previously known, says a new study.
The new information pushes the presence of the bacterium Treponema pallidum back at least 3,000 years from what was ...
From a 5,500-year-old human shin bone, scientists have discovered a close cousin of the pathogen that causes syphilis, ...
And this means we might have been thinking about the origins of syphilis in an entirely wrong way. While the French ...
The findings represent the oldest complete set of genetic information from this bacterial group and shed light on its ...
A 5,500-year-old genome of Treponema pallidum recovered from Colombia has revealed that syphilis-causing bacteria circulated in the Americas millennia before agriculture, undermining the ...