Scientists recover DNA from a 5,500-year-old burial in Colombia, revealing ancient syphilis-related bacteria and reshaping disease history.

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

A Roman-era skeleton discovered in southern England has finally given up her secrets after more than a decade of debate.

The findings, announced in a Jan. 22 press release, are the result of a study of 5,500-year-old human remains in Sabana de ...

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

A young woman who lived nearly two millennia ago along the southern coast of England has been the center of scientific ...

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

“What we can say with confidence is that heartworm evolution is far older and more complex than a simple story of parasites ...

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

In the U.S., the wrongfully convicted are often expected to prove their innocence through DNA, even though many crimes leave ...

Hungarian biologist Tibor Gánti is an obscure figure. Now, more than a decade after his death, his ideas about how life began ...

INTERVIEW: Adriana Turk grew up in Australia believing that her entire family tree had been wiped out in Hitler’s genocide.