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The surprising, ancient origins of TB, humanity's most deadly disease

The surprising, ancient origins of TB, humanity's most deadly disease

23 June 2021

New developments in a 10,000-year-old cold case have upended our ideas about how and when tuberculosis began infecting humans – and offered hope for a better vaccine
European populations have accumulated many mutations

Europeans have steadily accumulated mutations for thousands of years

9 September 2019

The number of mildly harmful mutations in the European population has increased over the last 45,000 years, a lingering effect of early migration into Europe

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