Researchers scour more than 600 genome sequences in quest for origins of Black Death

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Source: Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA)

Researchers seeking to better understand the origins and movement of bubonic plague have completed a painstaking granular examination of hundreds of modern and ancient genome sequences, the largest analysis of its kind.

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