TB patient under microscopeAndrew Speaker, right and his wife Sarah were interviewed at National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver, by Diane Sawyer on May 31, 2007.

James Tytko presents science news and we’re putting tuberculosis under the microscope.

The surprising discovery of a bacterium in a marine sponge from the Great Barrier Reef with striking similarity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the pathogen responsible for tuberculosis (TB), could ...

However, by lighting up the phagosomes with fluorescent markers and then watching them handle an invasion of M. tuberculosis under the microscope, researchers at the Francis Crick Institute in ...

A new $240 microscope that runs on AA batteries is as effective for diagnosing tuberculosis as $40,000 professional laboratory models.

Tuberculosis continued to rise again in the U.S. last year, reaching its highest levels in more than a dozen years. More than 10,300 cases were reported last year, an 8% increase from 2023 and the ...

The fluid is checked under the microscope of using biochemical tests to detect tuberculosis. Ruling out other diagnoses Diagnosis that need to be ruled out while confirming tuberculosis include ...

Low-income countries struggling to keep tuberculosis under control might get a boost from an unlikely source — giant African rats. The big rodents spotted hundreds of TB-positive sputum samples ...

CellScope, a microscope camera made by pairing a cell phone and a special lens, is now powerful enough to capture images of bacteria labeled with fluorescent markers.

A new $240 microscope that runs on AA batteries is as effective for diagnosing tuberculosis as $40,000 professional laboratory models.