In 1812, hundreds of thousands of men in Napoleon's army perished during their retreat from Russia. Researchers now believe a ...

New research suggests that two surprise pathogens were among the diseases that laid waste to the emperor’s vaunted Grande ...

Researchers identify two pathogens in the remains of soldiers in Napoleon's army. Napoleon’s withdrawal from Russia in 1812 ...

However, recent microbial analysis conducted on the remains of Grand Army soldiers indicates at least two other pathogens ...

In 1812 Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Russia with one of the largest armies in history—the “Grande Armée” of about half a ...

生命科学Life science1812年夏，法兰西皇帝拿破仑·波拿巴率50万大军入侵俄罗斯帝国。然而到12月时，这支军队仅余零星残部。历史记载将此次“全军覆没”归因于饥寒交迫与斑疹伤寒。但在10月24日发表于Cell ...

The study revealed that Napoleon's soldiers suffered from several infections, exacerbated by cold, hunger, and exhaustion, ...

New research finds evidence of two previously undocumented infections that likely plagued the French emperor's Grande Armée ...

Ancient DNA from Napoleon’s soldiers reveals enteric and relapsing fevers - not typhus - as key killers during the army’s ...

In the winter of 1812, Napoleon’s Grande Armée met its most devastating enemy—not the Russian army, but biology itself. As ...

A 2006 study involving DNA from 35 other soldiers from the same cemetery detected the pathogens behind typhus and trench ...

Genetic material pulled from 13 teeth found in a grave in Lithuania revealed infectious diseases that felled the French ...