Mycobacterium tuberculosis is arguably the world's most successful infectious agent because it knows how to avoid elimination by slowing its own growth to a crawl. Now, a report in the July 10 issue of the journal Cell, a ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 9, 2009
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It's a disease that has plagued humans since the Paleolithic era: tuberculosis. After centuries of deaths and decades of research, why are we still fighting this deadly disease?
Other
Jun 4, 2015
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In the past 50 years, only one new tuberculosis drug has come on to the market, yet many more active substances are urgently needed. Current treatments increasingly fail due to multidrug-resistant pathogens. ETH researchers ...
Biochemistry
Jul 2, 2014
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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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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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Researchers have developed a novel genome assembly tool that could spur the development of new treatments for tuberculosis and other bacterial infections.
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 16, 2022
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In a new study published in Nature Communications, researchers from Stockholm University show for the first time how NrdR binds to DNA to inhibit RNR. The novel mechanism could help scientists design better antibiotics by ...
Biochemistry
May 19, 2022
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Bacteria tend to be more frugal when constructing proteins for use outside of the cell versus internally, saving their energy for synthesizing compounds that can be recycled, according to research published in the current ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 1, 2010
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Imagine if all childhood vaccines could get delivered with an inhaler rather than shots; or wiping away tuberculosis bacteria in a patient's lungs with an inhaler; or disinfecting a hospital room thoroughly with a diffuser.
Engineering
Apr 11, 2018
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The bacterium behind tuberculosis is a wily foe, adept at bobbing and weaving around the immune system and antibiotics alike. Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) has been notoriously difficult to eradicate, often dormant in ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 20, 2024
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