Scientists have uncovered a 4,000-year-old ancestor of the Black Death in the remains of a Bronze Age sheep, shedding light ...

Recent DNA analysis has uncovered that a Bronze Age sheep from Arkaim, a settlement in the southern Urals (situated in modern Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, near ...

The bacteria behind the plague, Yersinia pestis, has been intensively studied using ancient DNA, with almost 200 genomes ...

The DNA of Yersinia pestis bacteria has been found in a Bronze Age sheep, offering a clue to how the plague may have spread ...

Evidence from 13th-century chroniclers and physicians indicates plague may have been involved in epidemics a century before the Black Death, a new study shows. Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that ...

Genetic testing of people who died in Kyrgyzstan eight years before plague reached Europe reveals an ancient strain of the bacterium Yersinia pestis. In the foothills of the Tian Shan mountains in ...

Reports of the infection—including one death this month—recently shook up social media. But, unlike COVID-19, plague is a disease that countries have more or less got under control. On March 7, ...

Yet the highly infectious disease borne of the bacterium Yersinia pestis still persists. From 1,000 to 3,000 cases of plague are reported each year globally, 10 to 15 of them in the western United ...

(Since 1970 the bacillus has been known as Yersinia pestis.) That the plague had an identifiable "germ" was known. But other recent findings had not been disseminated -- or believed. Most people ...

About 14 months after the 9/11 attacks, my husband and I were admitted to a New York City hospital with a diagnosis of plague.

The U of A offers online training on operating fume hoods in SciShield, open to all students, faculty, and staff. Fume hoods protect users from exposure to hazardous fumes, vapors and dust. The U of A ...

Virulence of Yersinia has been studied in my laboratory since 1980 and the approach has been to use the tools of modern molecular biology and genetics to elucidate the selected aspects of it.