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 ...
The findings, announced in a Jan. 22 press release, are the result of a study of 5,500-year-old human remains in Sabana de ...
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 ...
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New discovery pushes the history of syphilis-like diseases back by 3,000 years and reveals a never-before-seen subspecies
We often tell ourselves a comforting story about the history of disease: it’s the price of civilization. For most of human ...
The discovery, led by evolutionary genomics researcher Davide Bozzi, pushes back the evidence for treponemal diseases, as ...
Researchers recovered ancient DNA from a 5,500-year-old skeleton in Colombia and reconstructed a genome related to Treponema pallidum. The lineage predates known syphilis strains by ~3,000 years, ...
Scientists recover DNA from a 5,500-year-old burial in Colombia, revealing ancient syphilis-related bacteria and reshaping disease history.
A previously unknown strain of syphilis bacteria has been discovered in human remains in Colombia, dating back 5,500 years.
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