{"id":228839,"date":"2026-01-12T02:04:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T08:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/ancient-dna-insights-into-diverse-pathogens-and-their-hosts"},"modified":"2026-01-12T02:04:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T08:04:54","slug":"ancient-dna-insights-into-diverse-pathogens-and-their-hosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/ancient-dna-insights-into-diverse-pathogens-and-their-hosts","title":{"rendered":"Ancient DNA insights into diverse pathogens and their hosts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ancient-dna-insights-into-diverse-pathogens-and-their-hosts2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ancient DNA techniques are being applied to study increasingly diverse pathogens of the past. The authors review the latest insights into pathogen\u2013host coevolution, zoonotic events and the spread of pathogens, all while highlighting the importance of a One Health approach to this research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancient DNA techniques are being applied to study increasingly diverse pathogens of the past. The authors review the latest insights into pathogen\u2013host coevolution, zoonotic events and the spread of pathogens, all while highlighting the importance of a One Health approach to this research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}