Syphilis has long played a role in human history: some think that notable figures like Dracula author Bram Stoker and Russian ...
A 5500-year-old genome recovered from human skeletal remains in Colombia may give insights into the early evolution of ...
Learn how ancient DNA from human remains revealed that syphilis circulated in the Americas thousands of years earlier than ...
A previously unknown strain of syphilis bacteria has been discovered in human remains in Colombia, dating back 5,500 years.
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 ...
For the first time, scientists have reconstructed ancient genomes of Human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from archaeological human remains more than two millennia old. The study, led by the ...