Pneumonic plague, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, remains a subject of intense scientific scrutiny given its historical impact and potential modern threat. Research has elucidated the ...

Daniel Zimbler receives funding from National Institutes of Health, NIAID Wyndham Lathem receives funding from National Institutes of Health, NIAID. Y. pestis can cause three different forms of plague ...

Scientists solve the mystery of the Justinian Plague. They identify Yersinia pestis as the cause. The plague devastated the Byzantine Empire. DNA from a mass grave in Jerash, Jordan confirms this.

New research by geneticists hints at the deadly work of Yersinia pestis 5,000 years ago. By Franz Lidz At the end of the Stone Age, some 5,300 years ago, the populations of Scandinavia and northwest ...

If you’re not familiar with Yersinia pestis, that’s okay. However, I’m sure you’re familiar with the plague. Does the Black Death ring a bell? The most notable outbreaks of plague are the 6th century ...

The latest tests conducted by anthropologists in Germany have proven that the bacteria Yersinia pestis was indeed the causative agent behind the "Black Death" that raged across Europe in the Middle ...

Learn more about Yersinia pestis, the bacteria behind the ‘Black Death,’ which changed over time to cause less virulent, but longer pandemics. A new study in Science suggests that changes in a gene in ...

A scientist died after becoming the first American researcher to contract the plague in 50 years, it has been revealed. Malcolm Casadaban, 60, was working with a weakened form of the plague's bacteria ...

While studying Yersinia pestis, the bacteria responsible for epidemics of plague such as the Black Death, scientists found a single small genetic change that fundamentally influenced the evolution of ...

© David Ausserhofer for Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces © David Ausserhofer for Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces The Black Death is ...

Acquisition of novel traits via mobile genetic elements, is a mechanism employed by bacteria allowing relative leaps in adaptation and evolution (Frost et al., 2005). Many mobile genetic elements are ...