How Fred Hutch scientists tackle world’s top infectious killer, TB
Ensuring vaccines are effective, accepted Immunologist Erica Andersen-Nissen, PhD, a principal staff scientist in the McElrath Lab, heads the Cape Town…
Peng Liyuan calls for global action against TB
BEIJING – Peng Liyuan, wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping and also the World Health Organization (WHO) goodwill…
Study uncovers how tuberculosis bacteria fuel themselves during infection
Researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) have uncovered how the bacteria that causes tuberculosis fuels itself during infection, providing new insights…
USAID funding cuts increase financial burden for families with tuberculosis
More than a year after the second Trump administration began dismantling the US Agency for International Development (USAID),…
Tuberculosis bacteria stiffen cell membranes to evade immune destruction
Scientists have uncovered an elegant biophysical trick that tuberculosis-causing bacteria use to survive inside human cells, a discovery…
Modified peptides show promise against tuberculosis bacteria
Antibiotic treatments are losing effectiveness against a range of common bacterial pathogens, including E. coli, K. pneumoniae, Salmonella and Acinetobacter, according to a…
Key protein in the tuberculosis bacterium helps protect itself from foreign DNA
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), with collaborators from the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), have…
New method measures how effectively antibiotics kill bacteria
Drugs that act against bacteria are mainly assessed based on how well they inhibit bacterial growth under laboratory…
New AI tools offer hope for global TB elimination
Researchers have unveiled new AI tools, from smartphone cough analysis to child-friendly screening systems, which could transform how…
New clinical trial shows promise for shorter TB treatment
New clinical trial results presented by TB Alliance at the Union World Conference on Lung Health show that…
World’s deadliest disease might soon have a cure: Breakthrough tuberculosis vaccine marks first major progress in 100 years |
A century after the discovery of the original tuberculosis vaccine, scientists have developed a potential game-changer in the…
Multi-view deep learning framework for the detection of chest X-rays compatible with pediatric pulmonary tuberculosis
Multi-view deep learning framework for pediatric TB-compatible CXR detection The framework proposed (see Fig. 1-II) is a multi-view pipeline…