Tuberculosis (TB) remains a formidable health challenge, claiming over a million lives annually despite advancements in ...

Working toward more effective tuberculosis (TB) vaccines, researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have developed two strains of mycobacteria with "kill switches" that can be triggered to stop the ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) manipulates host cell death pathways to facilitate infection by promoting necroptosis and inhibiting apoptosis. The Mtb effector ...

The team used single-cell RNA sequencing and advanced imaging techniques to compare the immune response between animals ...

"Tuberculosis cells are clumpy and seem to always stick close to each other, so defining cell boundaries didn't seem possible," said Sugie, chief technology officer at Linnaeus Bioscience.

The World Health Organization warned last week that the sweeping funding cuts could endanger millions of lives, since many countries depend on foreign aid for TB prevention, testing and treatment.

Since January 2024, dozens of tuberculosis cases have been found around Kansas City. TB may seem like a disease of the past—but it’s still with us.

Kansas is experiencing its largest tuberculosis outbreak in history, with 67 active cases and two deaths. The outbreak is contained to specific areas in Kansas and poses a low risk to the general ...

Tuberculosis remains one of the most lethal infectious diseases caused by a single pathogen. According to the latest global ...

Treatment of TB usually requires several months of antibiotic ... Granulomas are composed of a fibrous capsule which surrounds a layer of immune cells and a core of dead tissue (necrotic core ...

Engineered Mycobacterium tuberculosis triple-kill-switch strain provides controlled tuberculosis infection in animal models. Nature Microbiology , 2025; 10 (2): 482 DOI: 10.1038/s41564-024-01913-5 ...