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A change to a single gene in the bacterium Yersinia pestis has enabled one of the world’s most notorious pathogens to survive for centuries.

It comes as little surprise that the dream of many a warlord or government has been to harness disease as a weapon with which to destroy one’s enemies. If used effectively, a weaponised virus could ...

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