Ancient DNA from 5,500-year-old remains in Colombia reveals syphilis-related bacteria existed some 3,000 years earlier than ...

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

History reminds us that scientific progress achieved at the expense of the most vulnerable cannot be justified.

NEW YORK (AP) — Peter Buxtun, the whistleblower who revealed that the U.S. government allowed hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama to go untreated for syphilis in what became known as the Tuskegee ...

Ancient DNA from a 5,500-year-old skeleton in Colombia reveals the oldest genome of "Treponema pallidum" yet, sharpening ...

Over 40 years, experimenters watched as hundreds of Black Americans went blind, suffered from organ failure, and died of a treatable disease.

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

Congenital syphilis is preventable, but nonetheless, the disease is on the rise in countries like Australia, a study finds. This mirrors trends in the U.S. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

Syphilis has long played a role in human history: some think that notable figures like Dracula author Bram Stoker and Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin had the disease. And scientists know that the ...

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