Collaborative team from UMass Amherst and Seattle Children’s Research Institute uncovers how prior exposure to bacteria changes the lung’s innate immune response – and what it might mean for vaccines.

AMHERST, Mass., April 18, 2023 – In ongoing research aimed at developing more effective treatments for tuberculosis (TB), University of Massachusetts Amherst microbiologists have identified a long-sought gene that plays a critical role in the growth and survival of the TB pathogen.

AMHERST, Mass., October 23, 2017 – As part of the long effort to improve treatment of tuberculosis (TB), microbiologists led by Yasu Morita at the University of Massachusetts Amherst report that they have for the first time characterized a protein involved in making a glycolipid compound found in the TB cell wall, which is critical for the disease-causing Mycobacterium to become infectious.