A new study explores how tuberculosis (TB) controls its own growth on a molecular level. The research team behind the study, led by the University of Surrey and the University of Oxford, propose that this identifies ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 8, 2021
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While we're all rightly focused on the COVID-19 pandemic at the moment, the SARS-CoV-2 virus isn't the only microbial threat we face.
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 8, 2021
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Tuberculosis is one of the top ten causes of death worldwide, infecting about one-quarter of the world's population. Although it is treatable, the rise of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis poses a major threat to global health ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jun 28, 2021
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Tuberculosis is a devastating disease that claims over 1.5 million lives each year. The increase in TB cases that are resistant to the current antibiotics means that novel drugs to kill Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) are ...
Biochemistry
Apr 15, 2021
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Macrophages—the front line of our immune system—protect us from infections. But in the case of the tuberculosis bacteria, this often goes wrong. The group of Annemarie Meijer from the Leiden Institute of Biology has now ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 14, 2021
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Six years ago, Michael Niederweis, Ph.D., described the first toxin ever found for the deadly pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This toxin, tuberculosis necrotizing toxin, or TNT, became the founding member of a novel ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Apr 8, 2021
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A consortium of researchers from Russia, Belarus, Japan, Germany and France led by a Skoltech scientist have uncovered the way in which Mycobacterium tuberculosis survives in iron-deficient conditions by utilizing rubredoxin ...
Biochemistry
Apr 8, 2021
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Researchers have identified a critical mechanism that allows deadly bacteria to gain resistance to antibiotics.
Biochemistry
Mar 8, 2021
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As COVID-19 impacts lives around the world—a new skeleton study is reconstructing ancient pandemics to assess human's evolutionary ability to fight off leprosy, tuberculosis and treponematoses with help from declining rates ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Feb 25, 2021
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Tuberculosis bacteria have evolved to remember stressful encounters and react quickly to future stress, according to a study by computational bioengineers at Rice University and infectious disease experts at Rutgers New Jersey ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 22, 2021
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