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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 ...
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New discovery pushes the history of syphilis-like diseases back by 3,000 years and reveals a never-before-seen subspecies
We often tell ourselves a comforting story about the history of disease: it’s the price of civilization. For most of human ...
The discovery, led by evolutionary genomics researcher Davide Bozzi, pushes back the evidence for treponemal diseases, as ...
Treponema pallidum, a microorganism that can cause a deadly sexually transmitted disease in humans, may have a far more ancient lineage than scientists once thought ...
Scientists recover DNA from a 5,500-year-old burial in Colombia, revealing ancient syphilis-related bacteria and reshaping disease history.
A previously unknown strain of syphilis bacteria has been discovered in human remains in Colombia, dating back 5,500 years.
Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum—the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...
A team of scientists has used state-of-the-art technology to elucidate the molecular architecture of Treponema pallidum, the bacterium which causes syphilis. The previously unknown detailed structure ...
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