The findings represent the oldest complete set of genetic information from this bacterial group and shed light on its ...

And this means we might have been thinking about the origins of syphilis in an entirely wrong way. While the French ...

From a 5,500-year-old human shin bone, scientists have discovered a close cousin of the pathogen that causes syphilis, ...

“Our results push back the association of T. pallidum with humans by thousands of years, possibly more than 10,000 years ago ...

A 5,500-year-old skeleton from Colombia has revealed the oldest known genome of the bacterium linked to syphilis and related ...

“The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we conceived of life itself. The X-ray crystallography by Rosalind Franklin ...

Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum—the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...

ASTANA – The ethnic history of the Kazakh people is complex, shaped by centuries of migration, cultural interaction and ...

The discovery, led by evolutionary genomics researcher Davide Bozzi, pushes back the evidence for treponemal diseases, as ...

DNA testing has helped family history researchers fill in the blanks in their family trees. While that can be a good thing, ...