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 ...
Syphilis has long played a role in human history: some think that notable figures like Dracula author Bram Stoker and Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin had the disease. And scientists know that the ...
“Our results push back the association of T. pallidum with humans by thousands of years, possibly more than 10,000 years ago ...
In A Nutshell Scientists discovered a 5,500-year-old form of the bacteria that causes syphilis in remains from Colombia, the ...
A 5500-year-old genome recovered from human skeletal remains in Colombia may give insights into the early evolution of ...
A previously unknown strain of syphilis bacteria has been discovered in human remains in Colombia, dating back 5,500 years.
What began as a study of human population history quickly evolved into a groundbreaking ...
Scientists recover DNA from a 5,500-year-old burial in Colombia, revealing ancient syphilis-related bacteria and reshaping disease history.
Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum—the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...