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

From a 5,500-year-old human shinbone, scientists have discovered a close cousin of the pathogen that causes syphilis, providing the oldest evidence yet that the disease has ancient roots in the ...

The Xpert GI Panel identifies pathogens directly from stool specimens collected in Cary-Blair transport media.

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 ...

Plant pathogens, particularly those from the genera Dickeya and Pectobacterium, are the primary causal agents of soft rot diseases, which affect a wide range of economically important crops. These ...

SALT LAKE CITY-Scientists at the University of Utah School of Medicine, ARUP Laboratories, and IDbyDNA, Inc., have developed ultra-fast, meta-genomics analysis software called Taxonomer that ...

There’s been a new interest in diseases and viruses lately thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, with people being a little more wary of germs than they were before 2020. Now, the World Health Organization ...

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

Health challenges with PRRS and PED persist, along with emerging diseases at our doorstep such as New World screwworm.