The Black Death, which killed as many as 50% of affected populations in Western Asia, Africa, | Genetics And Genomics ...

With the onset of the rainy season, the menace of rats and rodents escalates, bringing not just nuisance but serious health ...

The Black Death killed tens of millions in a few years. Now scientists know how the plague adapted to infect people for ...

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

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 ...

Reducing the copies of one gene in the bubonic plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, made it less deadly but potentially more ...

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to ...

The evolution of a single gene from the bubonic plague microbe allowed it to survive for centuries — and to this very day ...

Researchers found that changes in the pla gene copy number in Yersinia pestis affected plague virulence and host survival.

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to survive hundreds of years by adjusting its virulence and the length of time ...