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

Syphilis has long played a role in human history: some think that notable figures like Dracula author Bram Stoker and Russian ...

A previously unknown strain of syphilis bacteria has been discovered in human remains in Colombia, dating back 5,500 years.

Treponema pallidum, a microorganism that can cause a deadly sexually transmitted disease in humans, may have a far more ancient lineage than scientists once thought ...

Scientists have extracted DNA from one of Leonardo da Vinci's works, potentially offering a glimpse into the genetic makeup ...

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 first known outbreak of syphilis in Europe began at the turn of the 16th century, but on the distant continent of South ...

There is a dark side to humanity that many people would rather not explore. However, there are those on the other side of the ...

"We keep our mouths shut and we go to work. It's a different day and age" the Hurricanes head coach said. A full transcript ...

Ever since eighteenth-century scholars recognized that Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit all descended from a common language, researchers have been consumed with determining who first spoke this ancient ...