Juliette Powell, a former MuchMusic VJ and author, has died. The 54-year-old, who appeared on Canadian television in the '90s as a host of Electric Circus and French Kiss died on June 3 after a brief ...

The Black Death remains the single deadliest pandemic in recorded human history, killing an estimated 30 to 50 per cent of the populations of Europe, Western Asia and Africa as it moved through those ...

The evolution of a single gene allowed the Black Death to adapt, survive and kill tens of millions of people, reveals new research. Scientists have uncovered the way a gene in the bacterium that ...

Seasons change, and shorter days arrive quickly. It’s natural to think about your furry family members who are outdoors. A cat waits at the door, wanting to go out now. A question pops into mind: can ...

Andrew Stuttaford collects sources arguing that the depopulation that followed the Black Death of 1348 had a silver lining:. In 1300 England’s population had been around six million. In 1350 ...

Research has revealed that the evolution of a single gene in Yersinia pestis - the bacterium that causes bubonic plague - allowed it to adapt and survive for so long.

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Since FDA approval late 2023, the non-invasive liver tumor treatment, histotripsy has been used at University of Michigan Health since early 2024. As the use of histotripsy is expanding across the ...

A new study in Science suggests that changes in a gene in Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes plague, could’ve added to the length of two plague pandemics, including the pandemic that started ...

In 1992, graduate student Yasumasa Ishida discovered PD-1, marking the beginning of a journey that would make this molecule a major target in cancer immunotherapy. Now, Dr. Ishida and colleagues ...

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.

Black Death Plague That Killed Millions Became Less Fatal because of This Genetic Tweak Reducing the copies of one gene in the bubonic plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, made it less deadly but ...