A new economic feasibility study “shows that Spokane’s ‘Walk in the Wild’ zoo project could become one of the nation’s top ...

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 ...

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

An ancestor of the bacteria responsible for plague has been found in the tooth of a sheep that lived nearly 4,000 years ago ...

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 ...

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

A new study suggests that plague, caused by Yersinia pestis, may have been present in the Middle East nearly a century before the Black Death. Historians analyzed 13th-century medical and historical ...

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, ...

pestis genome. The bacterial strains used in this study are ... Cell pellets were dissolved in SDS-PAGE buffer and analyzed by immunoblotting using antibodies to Yop (Yersinia outer membrane protein) ...