Jim Sun examines how Mycobacterium tuberculosis evades human defenses and forges new ways to control this deadly bacterial ...

In a paper published today in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, a research team at Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Johns ...

Scientists at James Cook University have uncovered new insights into how the body contains latent tuberculosis, using a cutting-edge technique that allows researchers to map exactly where immune cells ...

A new method that analyzes how individual immune cells react to the bacteria that cause tuberculosis could pave the way for new vaccine strategies against this deadly disease, and provide insights ...

Four types of lung cells — including immune cells — function together on a chip environment that simulates respiration and ...

Mammalian hosts coordinate various cell death pathways as part of the immune defense system against pathogens including Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), which causes tuberculosis featuring lung ...

Tuberculosis is one of the top ten causes of death worldwide, with 10.4 million people falling ill and 1.7 million dying from the disease in 2016. OF these deaths 95% of tuberculosis-related deaths ...

A new technique may one day allow fast, simple detection of the bacteria that causes TB, as well as a way to monitor whether drugs are working. A molecule made in the lab may change the way ...

Scientists have uncovered important clues to how human T cells combat Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes TB. La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) is working to guide the ...

Scientists have discovered a signaling pathway that tuberculosis bacteria use to coerce disease-fighting cells to switch allegiance and work on their behalf. Epithelial cells line the airways and ...

Madhya Pradesh Governor Mangubhai Patel, on Tuesday, asserted that the efforts to eliminate Sickle Cell Anaemia and TB ...