Analysis of a shin bone found in a rock cave in Colombia suggests the sexually transmitted disease is much older than previously believed.
A previously unknown strain of syphilis bacteria has been discovered in human remains in Colombia, dating back 5,500 years.
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Ancient find rewrites 3,000 years of syphilis-like disease history
A 5,500-year-old skeleton from the Americas has yielded the oldest genetic evidence yet of a bacterium closely related to the ...
Researchers have reconstructed ancient herpesvirus genomes from Iron Age and medieval Europeans, revealing that HHV-6 has been infecting humans for at least 2,500 years. Some people inherited the ...
“Our results push back the association of T. pallidum with humans by thousands of years, possibly more than 10,000 years ago ...
Scientists recover DNA from a 5,500-year-old burial in Colombia, revealing ancient syphilis-related bacteria and reshaping disease history.
Learn how ancient DNA from human remains revealed that syphilis circulated in the Americas thousands of years earlier than ...
Scientists have decoded the world’s oldest human DNA sequence, beating the previous record by almost 300,000 years, and at the same time confusing what we know of our early relatives. Published in ...
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