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

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

The bacteria behind the plague, Yersinia pestis, has been intensively studied using ancient DNA, with almost 200 genomes ...

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, ...

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 ...

Since 1980 his studies have focused on the genetics and molecular biology of bacterial virulence factors with pathogenic Yersinia as model organisms with specific attention to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) ...

The FDA has granted clearance to Qiagen’s QIAstat-Dx Gastrointestinal Panel 2 Mini B, expanding the company’s syndromic ...

Virulence of Yersinia has been studied in my laboratory since 1980 and the approach has been to use the tools of modern molecular biology and genetics to elucidate the selected aspects of it.