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 ...
In A Nutshell Scientists discovered a 5,500-year-old form of the bacteria that causes syphilis in remains from Colombia, the ...
Learn how ancient DNA from human remains revealed that syphilis circulated in the Americas thousands of years earlier than once thought.
And this means we might have been thinking about the origins of syphilis in an entirely wrong way. While the French ...
What began as a study of human population history quickly evolved into a groundbreaking ...
A 5,500-year-old skeleton from the Americas has yielded the oldest genetic evidence yet of a bacterium closely related to the ...
From a 5,500-year-old human shin bone, scientists have discovered a close cousin of the pathogen that causes syphilis, ...
The decades-long syphilis epidemic in the U.S. continues, as the CDC says the maternal syphilis rate spiked 28% between 2022 ...
New numbers show a 28% jump in cases over two years. We break down what's behind these numbers.