In the dry, windswept valleys of Northern Chile, two ancient skeletons are changing how scientists understand the history of ...

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

Leprosy’s tale stretches from 5,000-year-old skeletons in Eurasia to a startling 4,000-year-old case in Chile, revealing that ...

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

Hansen's Disease, more commonly known as leprosy, is a chronic disease that can lead to physical impairment. Today it exists in over 100 countries, and while the infection is treatable, access to ...

Ancient pathogen genomes from old bones: a team of scientists from Germany and Argentina have reconstructed two genomes of ...

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

President Droupadi Murmu, graced the fifth convocation ceremony of AIIMS, Bhubaneswar, at Bhubaneswar, Odisha, on Monday, according to a President's Secretariat statement. Speaking on the occasion, ...

When hunter-gatherers began living close to animals, the pathogens that cause the plague and leprosy got closer too.

The ASI director (epigraphy) stated, “The finding of the inscription is historically important as it preserves the ...

In her address, President Murmu praised AIIMS Bhubaneswar for its impressive growth over the past 12 years since its ...

Insights from Toras Harav Levi Yitzchok Schneerson, the Rebbe's father, presented by Shliach Rabbi Dovid Dubov of New Jersey, ...