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5,500-year-old human skeleton discovered in Colombia holds the oldest evidence yet that syphilis came from the Americas
An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...
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 ...
By studying genetic data from nearly 140,000 IVF embryos, scientists have with unprecedented detail revealed why fewer than ...
“Our results push back the association of T. pallidum with humans by thousands of years, possibly more than 10,000 years ago ...
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Ancient DNA exposes virus that hacked its way into human genes
Ancient DNA is turning human evolution into a crime scene reconstruction, and one of the prime suspects is a herpesvirus that ...
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Ancient bacterium discovery rewrites the origins of syphilis
A 5500-year-old genome recovered from human skeletal remains in Colombia may give insights into the early evolution of ...
A new study suggests humans belong in an elite “league of monogamy,” ranking closer to beavers and meerkats than to chimpanzees. By comparing full and half siblings across species and human cultures, ...
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 ...
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