The findings represent the oldest complete set of genetic information from this bacterial group and shed light on its ...
In A Nutshell Scientists discovered a 5,500-year-old form of the bacteria that causes syphilis in remains from Colombia, the ...
What began as a study of human population history quickly evolved into a groundbreaking ...
The discovery, led by evolutionary genomics researcher Davide Bozzi, pushes back the evidence for treponemal diseases, as ...
Scientists recover DNA from a 5,500-year-old burial in Colombia, revealing ancient syphilis-related bacteria and reshaping disease history.
Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum—the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...
A newly sequenced genome of the bacterium that causes syphilis, Treponema pallidum, highlights the deep antiquity of treponemal diseases in the Americas. The findings, based on a 5,500-year-old ...
Analysis of a shin bone found in a rock cave in Colombia suggests the sexually transmitted disease is much older than previously believed.