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

A comprehensive assessment of scientific literature has uncovered empirical evidence that more than 58% of human diseases caused by pathogens, such as dengue, hepatitis, pneumonia, malaria, Zika and ...

Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum—the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...

The discovery, led by evolutionary genomics researcher Davide Bozzi, pushes back the evidence for treponemal diseases, as ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Climate change can exacerbate a full 58% of the infectious diseases that humans come in contact with worldwide, from common waterborne viruses ...

Familial Hypobetalipoproteinemia (FHBL), caused by variants in the apolipoprotein B (APOB) gene, is a rare autosomal co-dominant monogenic disorder characterized by lifelong low plasma levels of total ...

Climate change can exacerbate a full 58% of the infectious diseases that humans come in contact with worldwide, from common waterborne viruses to deadly diseases like plague, our new research shows.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with climate scientist Camilo Mora on what impact climate change is having on pathogenic diseases. We often talk about the impact climate change will have on us in big, ...

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

Scientists have discovered a new, much less invasive method for testing whales for pathogens. In the past, scientists needed ...

American beeches have been suffering recently from a disease widespread in both Connecticut landscapes and forests.