WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Scientists have discovered the mechanism that hijacks the immune system's response to tuberculosis, revealing an important new drug target for the disease that kills more than 1 ...
One of the most elegant aspects of biology is how many systems evolve some sort of feedback that lets them self-limit their activity. Research published in today's issue of Nature describes a system ...
image: Jianjun Sun, Ph.D. left, associate professor in The University of Texas at El Paso Department of Biological Sciences, and Javier Aguilera, a doctoral student, stand in Sun's lab in the ...
Biology students and faculty members from The University of Texas at El Paso have discovered a new target for tuberculosis drug development. Their study recently was published in the Journal of ...
Copper (Cu) is essential for many biological processes, but is toxic when present in excessive amounts. In this study, we provide evidence that Cu plays a crucial role in controlling tuberculosis. A ...
Tuberculosis (TB) isn’t very common in the US, but worldwide it causes an immense amount of suffering. “It’s a persistent, decades-long pandemic,” says Michael Glickman, an infectious disease ...
Restoration of genes lost during the original attenuation of the commonly used BCG tuberculosis vaccine enhances the ability of a recombinant strain to protect against Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In ...
Molecular piracy and the mobilization of Staphylococcus aureus pathogenicity islands Staphylococcus aureus is an opportunistic pathogen that can cause serious local and systemic infections in humans ...
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