In a study released early this summer, researchers used DNA extracted from ancient teeth to pinpoint the origin of the 14th-century plague, the Black Death.

Sharon DeWitte, an anthropology professor at the University of South Carolina, and an expert on the bubonic plague, explains how the new findings further our understanding of the Black Death, and Alicia Ventresca Miller, an archeology professor at the University of Michigan says future researchers will have much to learn from our remains.