Scientists from the Institut Pasteur and McMaster University have discovered that the evolution of a gene in the bacterium ...

The University of Cambridge project reveals sky-high homicide rates in medieval London, York and Oxford and shows that male ...

Researchers discovered that the absence of one critical gene made the plague less virulent, and may have allowed two major ...

A change to a single gene in the bacterium Yersinia pestis has enabled one of the world’s most notorious pathogens to survive ...