The Allen Ancient DNA Resource (AADR) a curated compendium of ancient human genomes

S Mallick, A Micco, M Mah, H Ringbauer, I Lazaridis… - Scientific Data, 2024‏ - nature.com
More than two hundred papers have reported genome-wide data from ancient humans.
While the raw data for the vast majority are fully publicly available testifying to the …

Natural products from reconstructed bacterial genomes of the Middle and Upper Paleolithic

M Klapper, A Hübner, A Ibrahim, I Wasmuth, M Borry… - Science, 2023‏ - science.org
Major advances over the past decade in the field of ancient DNA are providing access to
past paleogenomic diversity, but the diverse functions and biosynthetic capabilities of this …

Yersinia interactions with regulated cell death pathways

KW Chen, IE Brodsky - Current Opinion in Microbiology, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Cell death in response to infection is conserved across all kingdoms of life. In metazoans,
cell death upon bacterial infection is primarily carried out by the cysteine and aspartate …

Tracing the Evolution of Human Immunity Through Ancient DNA

E Patin, L Quintana-Murci - Annual Review of Immunology, 2024‏ - annualreviews.org
Infections have imposed strong selection pressures throughout human evolution, making the
study of natural selection's effects on immunity genes highly complementary to disease …

Yersinia pestis and plague: some knowns and unknowns

R Yang, S Atkinson, Z Chen, Y Cui… - Zoonoses …, 2023‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Since its first identification in 1894 during the third pandemic in Hong Kong, there has been
significant progress of understanding the lifestyle of Yersinia pestis, the pathogen that is …

No evidence for persistent natural plague reservoirs in historical and modern Europe

NC Stenseth, Y Tao, C Zhang, B Bramanti… - Proceedings of the …, 2022‏ - pnas.org
Caused by Yersinia pestis, plague ravaged the world through three known pandemics: the
First or the Justinianic (6th–8th century); the Second (beginning with the Black Death during …

Viral infections at the animal–human interface—Learning lessons from the SARS‐CoV‐2 pandemic

H Brüssow - Microbial Biotechnology, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
This Lilliput explores the current epidemiological and virological arguments for a zoonotic
origin of the COVID‐19 pandemic. While the role of bats, pangolins and racoon dogs as viral …

Identification of microbial pathogens in Neolithic Scandinavian humans

N Bergfeldt, E Kırdök, N Oskolkov, C Mirabello… - Scientific Reports, 2024‏ - nature.com
With the Neolithic transition, human lifestyle shifted from hunting and gathering to farming.
This change altered subsistence patterns, cultural expression, and population structures as …

Highly efficient visible-light-driven photocatalytic disinfection of flowing bioaerosol using mono/multilayer MXene based catalyst

L Liu, Z Shen, C Wang - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023‏ - Elsevier
In this study, two kinds of 2D materials (nanoscale mono/multi-layer MXene) were prepared,
and a new visible-light-driven photocatalyst MXene@ In 2 S 3 was synthesized by one-step …

Ancient pathogens provide a window into health and well-being

CM Lewis Jr, MY Akinyi, SN DeWitte… - Proceedings of the …, 2023‏ - pnas.org
This perspective draws on the record of ancient pathogen genomes and microbiomes
illuminating patterns of infectious disease over the course of the Holocene in order to …