“With our genetic analysis we were able to identify red squirrels as the first ancient animal host of leprosy,” said Verena Schuenemann, an archaeologist at the University of Basel in ...

Now, Verena Schünemann, a paleogeneticist at the University of Zurich, and her team have uncovered DNA from the bacterium T. pallidum endemicum in skeletons from the archaeological site of ...

In South America, palaeogeneticist Dr Verena Schuenemann has been extracting genetic material from human remains to find out more about treponemal diseases, which include syphilis, yaws and bejel.