The new information pushes the presence of the bacterium Treponema pallidum back at least 3,000 years from what was ...

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

We often tell ourselves a comforting story about the history of disease: it’s the price of civilization. For most of human ...

Syphilis has long played a role in human history: some think that notable figures like Dracula author Bram Stoker and Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin had the disease. And scientists know that the ...

A 5,500-year-old skeleton from Colombia has revealed the oldest known genome of the bacterium linked to syphilis and related ...

A 5,500-year-old skeleton from the Americas has yielded the oldest genetic evidence yet of a bacterium closely related to the ...

It would seem an unlikely pairing. One, pediatric hematologist Lydia Pecker, raised in Brooklyn and trained in the Bronx and Washington, D.C. The other, Lauren Anthony, recruited from Edmond, Oklahoma ...

Sam: As a young kid I became pretty fascinated by the things that could kill me, particularly infectious diseases. Don’t ask me why, I just was. And the first one I remember becoming obsessed with was ...

Dementia has been around since antiquity, but scientists identified Alzheimer’s as a brain disease only a century ago. Clues to its biology emerged slowly, and the field struggled. But discoveries ...

The rare genetic disease cystinosis is caused by mutations in the gene for a protein called cystinosin. A team of scientists has now solved the structure of cystinosin and determined how mutations ...