Bacteria have evolved to adapt to all of Earth's most extreme conditions, from scorching heat to temperatures well below zero ...

A 5,500-year-old skeleton from the Americas has yielded the oldest genetic evidence yet of a bacterium closely related to the ...

We often tell ourselves a comforting story about the history of disease: it’s the price of civilization. For most of human existence, we were healthy, free-roaming hunter-gatherers. It was only when ...

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, pathogen DNA has uncovered a pivotal disease "turning point" that happened 6,500 ...

When we look back over the history of infectious diseases, it’s the explosive pandemics that grab our attention. Cholera and plague terrify us with their swift destruction of cities and the paralysis ...

What are humans adapted for? -- Upstanding apes: how we became bipeds -- Much depends on dinner: how australopiths partly weaned us off fruit -- The first hunter-gatherers: how nearly modern bodies ...

A new longitudinal study provides critical insights into the intricate interplay between human immunity and viral evolution ...

Psychiatry often espouses brain disease explanations for mental disorders. Psychiatry pursued brain disease models due to past successes in physical medicine. Modern psychiatry seeks new insights on ...