Reducing the copies of one gene in the bubonic plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, made it less deadly but potentially more ...

Researchers discovered that the absence of one critical gene made the plague less virulent, and may have allowed two major ...

The Black Death remains the single deadliest pandemic in recorded human history. The deveastating pandemic wiped out up to half of the populations of Europe, Western Asia and Africa ...

The bacterium Yersinia pestis caused the Black Death — killing up to 50 million people in the mid-fourteenth century — as well as an earlier plague across the Mediterranean in the sixth ...

One of the bleakest periods in medieval Europe was the plague pandemic known as the Black Death, which killed at least 25 million people in just five years. But the disease didn’t stop there. The ...

Learn more about Yersinia pestis, the bacteria behind the ‘Black Death,' which changed over time to cause less virulent, but ...

In the largest mass-mortality event ever recorded, the Black Death swept through Europe in the 14th century, killing between 30 to 50 per cent of the human population. After the initial wave ...

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A small genetic change makes the bacterium that caused the plague less fatal but possibly more transmissible, allowing for ...

And this year, for the first time in NFL history, the essence of Black New Orleans – its soul, its resilience, its artistic legacy will take center stage as New Orleans artist Tahj “Queen Tahj ...

ATLANTA – A black female model leans on a stool atop a platform in a second-story studio in the city's historic arts district. She is nude, stoic and motionless. A half-dozen students ...

The examination of Black artists and sitters throughout art history, however, has been a chronically understudied and undervalued within Eurocentric discourse, making headlines reexamining Black ...