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 ...

Ancient DNA from a 5,500-year-old skeleton in Colombia reveals the oldest genome of "Treponema pallidum" yet, sharpening evidence that treponemal diseases predate European contact. An international ...

In A Nutshell Scientists discovered a 5,500-year-old form of the bacteria that causes syphilis in remains from Colombia, the ...

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

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

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 5500-year-old genome recovered from human skeletal remains in Colombia may give insights into the early evolution of ...

What began as a study of human population history quickly evolved into a groundbreaking ...

Rates of syphilis infection, once hampered by the discovery of penicillin, have been rising in recent years. Researchers recently linked the increase in modern syphilis cases to a pandemic, antibiotic ...

The decades-long syphilis epidemic in the U.S. continues, as the CDC says the maternal syphilis rate spiked 28% between 2022 ...