Paleogenomics has finally solved a question that has puzzled researchers for decades: Where did syphilis come from?

For centuries, scientists have disputed the origins of syphilis. A new study of ancient DNA supports an American origin for ...

In the spring of 1495, the French army, under the reign of Charles VIII, faced an unexpected enemy. Soldiers weren’t battling ...

New research on ancient DNA traces syphilis origins to the Americas, shedding light on the 15th-century outbreak in Europe.

In spring 1495, the Italian campaign of Charles VIII of France was interrupted by an intense outbreak of an apparently ...

New DNA research from ancient skeletons has revealed that syphilis and its related diseases were present in the Americas long ...

When a mysterious flesh-rotting disease broke out in Europe in 1495, two years after Christopher Columbus returned from the ...

For years, he tried to expose the Tuskegee syphilis study, but no one would listen. By Maggie Jones One afternoon in the ...

so researchers set out to study DNA from the pathogens which had been left in the bones of sufferers in the Americas. “We’ve known for some time that syphilis-like infections occurred in the ...

Syphilis was soon rampant across the Continent and beyond, but its origins continued to be fiercely debated, with some historians claiming it was actually home-grown. Now, scientists have carried out ...