Items tagged with Scientific research
Curcumin may help overcome drug-resistant tuberculosis (post)
New research indicates that curcumin--a substance in turmeric that is best known as one of the main components of curry powder--may help fight drug-resistant tuberculosis. In Asia, turmeric is used to treat many health conditions and it has anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and perhaps even anticancer properties.
‘Clogged-up’ immune cells help explain smoking risk for TB (post)
Smoking increases an individual’s risk of developing tuberculosis (TB) – and makes the infection worse – because it causes vital immune cells to become clogged up, slowing their movement and impeding their ability to fight infection, according to new research published in the journal Cell.
Tackling tuberculosis: New models for an old disease (post)
On World TB Day, Lucy Bell, from University College London, explores the research which has driven forward our understanding of TB today, and how cutting-edge research techniques are suggesting new strategies for TB treatment.
Global team aim for faster, more effective TB diagnosis (post)
As World TB day (24 March) marks global efforts to eliminate tuberculosis as a public health problem by 2035, Oxford University researchers, in partnership with Public Health England (PHE), will lead a new worldwide collaboration called CRyPTIC to speed up diagnosis of the disease.
The Zika loopholes (post)
March 25, 2016 - Last week, the Senate voted to add Zika to the list of neglected diseases for which pharmaceutical companies and other entities doing research and development for neglected diseases can receive a fast-track review for another product from the Food and Drug Administration. At first glance this seems like an apt move—the program was designedto encourage the development of treatments and vaccines for neglected diseases, and Zika is a disease for which there are currently no treatments or vaccines.
New drug combinations could significantly improve tuberculosis treatment (post)
Researchers from UCLA and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have made an important step toward a substantially faster and more effective treatment for tuberculosis, which infects some 10 million people and causes 1.5 million deaths each year.
Promising new method inhibits TB-causing bacteria (post)
Scientists at The University of Queensland and the University of California San Francisco have found a new way to inhibit the growth of the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB).
International Journal of Mycobacteriology, March 2016 issue (post)
The International Journal of Mycobacteriology is the journal of the Asian-African Society for Mycobacteriology. It is an open access journal and publishes the most current research related to basic, clinical and epidemiological studies of Mycobacterial infection.
Biomarker discovery offers hope for new TB vaccine (post)
A team of scientists led by Oxford University have made a discovery that could improve our chances of developing an effective vaccine against Tuberculosis.
The researchers have identified new biomarkers for Tuberculosis (TB) which have shown for the first time why immunity from the widely used Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine is so variable. The biomarkers will also provide valuable clues to assess whether potential new vaccines could be effective.
New TB drug resistance genes identified as researchers scour mycobacteria genomes (post)
NEW YORK, April 11, 2016 – By analyzing nearly 500 Mycobacterium tuberculosis genomes and performing functional studies, researchers from the Broad Institute and South Africa's KwaZulu Natal Research Institute for TB and HIV have identified a new mechanism by which the pathogen acquires drug resistance.
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