A previously unknown strain of syphilis bacteria has been discovered in human remains in Colombia, dating back 5,500 years. The ancient sample is more than 3,000 years older than the earliest known ...
From a 5,500-year-old human shinbone, scientists have discovered a close cousin of the pathogen that causes syphilis, providing the oldest evidence yet that the disease has ancient roots in the ...
Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center have developed a new way to predict how cancer cells evolve by gaining and losing whole ...
The discovery, led by evolutionary genomics researcher Davide Bozzi, pushes back the evidence for treponemal diseases, as ...
A 5500-year-old genome recovered from human skeletal remains in Colombia may give insights into the early evolution of ...
Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum—the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...
An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...
Welcome back to a new semester of Dissertation Diaries. As a reminder, this is the series where we highlight Ph.D. students ...
The MHRA ’s innovation is to take seriously the trade-off between the unknown risk of customised treatment and the almost inevitable suffering in its absence. It may be that one day, tragically, a ...
Walter “Wally” Gilbert is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor Emeritus and Emeritus Chair of the Society of Fellows at ...
The complete genome of an ancient Egyptian has been sequenced, revealing genetic links between the Nile and Mesopotamia 5,000 ...
A new study shows that cancer damages its own DNA by pushing key genes to work too hard. Researchers found that the most ...