The pla gene. In the new study, the team used hundreds of samples from ancient and modern plague victims.They screened the samples for a gene known as pla.This gene helps Yersinia pestis move ...

one from a human subject and two from black rats (Rattus rattus). “We’ve been able to do this really cool interdisciplinary study between the modern and ancient data and marry these things that have ...

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

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By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — One of the bleakest periods in medieval Europe was the plague pandemic known as the Black Death, which killed at least 25 million people in just five years. But ...

In the largest mass-mortality event ever recorded, the Black Death swept through Europe in the 14th century, killing between 30 to 50 per cent of the human population. After the initial wave, the ...

The plague, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, was the cause of some of the world's deadliest pandemics, including the Justinian Plague, the Black Death, and the major epidemics that swept ...

When the researchers searched for signs of depletion in a large set of samples of the third pandemic preserved in a collection at the Institut Pasteur, they found three contemporary strains with pla ...

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