Ancient pathogen genomics: insights into timing and adaptation.

TL;DR: This thematic review discusses radiocarbon dating, its principles, and limitations, focusing on its application to atypical archaeological samples, such as lipids in ceramics, burnt bones, and iron artifacts, to improve chronological understanding of past natural and cultural processes.

TL;DR: Although it can be hard to discern at times, every academic subject is accompanied by a particular mood; for example, patient industry in the case of history, righteous indignation in peace studies, refined querulousness in philosophy, stolid deliberativeness in chemistry, head-spinning giddiness in cosmology, and, at first glance at least, sadness in contemporary environmental science as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors developed an ultra-selective ex-DNA extraction method based on molecular imprinting technology, which can extract DNA at ideal recovery efficiencies (81%∼109%) from diverse environments, such as soil, air, river water and vegetable.

TL;DR: It is concluded that global resources to counter disease emergence are poorly allocated, with the majority of the scientific and surveillance effort focused on countries from where the next important EID is least likely to originate.

TL;DR: Guns, Germs, and Steel as discussed by the authors argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world, and argues that societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed religion and nasty germs and potent weapons of war.

TL;DR: Wild aquatic bird populations have long been considered the natural reservoir for influenza A viruses with virus transmission from these birds seeding other avian and mammalian hosts, but recent studies in bats have suggested other reservoir species may also exist.

TL;DR: Target metagenomic analyses of rigorously authenticated ancient DNA from 30,000-year-old Beringian permafrost sediments are reported and show conclusively that antibiotic resistance is a natural phenomenon that predates the modern selective pressure of clinical antibiotic use.