An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...

Metabolites in mouse and human breath correlate to gut-microbe populations and might be helpful in diagnosing disease.

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

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

One person who contracted it died. The fungus is commonly found in soil in the Ohio River and Mississippi River valleys, and ...

A rare fossil discovery in Ethiopia has pushed the known range of Paranthropus hundreds of miles farther north than ever before. The 2.6-million-year-old jaw suggests this ancient relative of humans ...

“Hundreds of fossils representing over a dozen species of Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, and Homo had been found in the Afar ...

Non-protein-coding genes have been linked to a hereditary condition, retinitis pigmentosa, that causes progressive blindness.

A rare but potentially deadly fungal infection known as histoplasmosis is sickening a cluster of people in Tennessee.

For the ArchaeoSpain research team, it was a day just like any other on their dig at the castle of Zorita de los Canes ...

Olfactory training, platelet-rich plasma, electrical stimulation, and more: Here’s where the research stands on smell ...

Introduction One of the challenges in managing patients with hantavirus infection is accurately identifying individuals who are at risk of developing severe disease. Prompt identification of these ...