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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In the course of a new and groundbreaking study, led by Dr. Natalia Freund and the doctoral candidate Avia Watson at the Sackler Medical Faculty, the research group succeeded in isolating monoclonal antibodies, which hindered ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 22, 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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Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and the University of Western Australia have developed a new imaging method to see where antibiotics have reached bacteria within tissues. The method could be used to help develop ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jan 5, 2021
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The infectious disease Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. While rates of TB in Canada have remained relatively static since the 1980s, the disease disproportionately affects Indigenous populations. ...
Biochemistry
Nov 25, 2020
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For a slow-growing microbe that multiplies infrequently, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the pathogen that causes tuberculosis (TB) has long puzzled researchers as to how it develops resistance to antibiotics so quickly, in a ...
Evolution
Nov 18, 2020
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When anthropologist Caroline Arcini and her colleagues at the Swedish Natural Historical Museum discovered small calcifications in the extremely well-preserved lungs of Bishop Peder Winstrup, they knew more investigation ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 17, 2020
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The tuberculosis bacterium has been around as long as mankind has.
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 6, 2020
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One of the most devastating pathogens that lives inside human cells is Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacillus that causes tuberculosis. According to the World Health Organization, 1.5 million people died in 2019 from this ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 1, 2020
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Researchers from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have discovered a strange new feature of a protein that's thought to be important in the development of tuberculosis: The protein contains a ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Mar 25, 2020
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