Graduate student Andrew Franco adjusts a liquid protein chromatography device in the Grundner lab at Seattle Children’s Research Institute. Credit: Michael McCarthy Graduate student Andrew Franco ...

Although significant advances have been made in preventing and treating diseases prevalent in developed countries, including cancer, diabetes and heart disease, there remains an urgent need for ...

Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) and analyses of hundreds of M. tuberculosis strains have resulted in a detailed phylogeny and a potential scenario for the emergence of human tuberculosis. According to ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a serious infectious disease of the lungs that is usually caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Nearly one-third of the world's population is currently infected with ...

The rod-shaped tuberculosis (TB) bacterium, which the World Health Organization has once again ranked as the top infectious disease killer globally, is the first single-celled organism ever observed ...

Researchers in Boston are working to determine if an old tuberculosis vaccine could be the key to treating type 1 diabetes.

Tuberculosis is a deadly bacterial infection that is among the top ten causes of death in the world, according to the World Health Organization. It is highly contagious, and it affects the lungs of ...

In a significant breakthrough, the Institute of Life Sciences (ILS), Bhubaneswar has developed a next-generation subunit ...

Researchers uncover ancient transmission chains of tuberculosis, by analyzing the DNA of humans excavated from archaeological sites across Colombia. Although tuberculosis is one of the biggest ...

Scientists have discovered something very unusual about a protein that is thought to be important to the development of tuberculosis. They found a very large interior pocket that seems to be able to ...

Tested in patients with the latent form of tuberculosis, the vaccine prevented the development of the active form of infection in 50 percent more individuals compared with unvaccinated patients.