Hansen's Disease, more commonly known as leprosy, is a chronic disease that can lead to physical impairment. Today it exists ...

Insects possess a remarkable ability to develop innate immune memory, and the mechanisms underlying this process are becoming a central topic in innate immunity research.

A new study has found that leprosy was circulating in Chile some 4,000 years ago, meaning the disease arrived in the Americas ...

A new study by the Genomics and Microbial Evolution Group at the Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH) together with the ...

Scientists at RBG Kew and Queen Mary University of London have found evidence that young ash tree populations are evolving ...

Well-preserved genomes show a “rare” leprosy strain thriving in ancient Chile, rewriting when and where Hansen’s Disease ...

A groundbreaking study reveals that leprosy was present in the Americas thousands of years ago, challenging the belief that ...

Molecular evolution is the area of evolutionary biology that studies evolutionary change at the level of the DNA sequence. It includes the study of rates of sequence change, relative importance of ...

Researchers have recovered and sequenced Mycobacterium lepromatosis genomes from 4,000-year-old human remains in Chile, ...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins have expressed interest in letting H5N1 ...

As managed honeybee hives multiply, wild bees and butterflies are disappearing. Since honeybees are not endangered, is ...