Items tagged with Scientific research
How tuberculosis hides in the body (post)
Tuberculosis is a global health problem, especially the antibiotic resistant variety. A new study tells us more about how the bacteria evades the immune system.
Valdosta State University develops antibiotic that effectively treats drug-resistant TB in living cells (post)
VALDOSTA, October 2, 2017 — Valdosta State University has developed an antibiotic that effectively treats some drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis (TB) in living cells.
Researchers work to understand why HIV patients are more likely to contract TB (post)
Researchers in the Tulane National Primate Research Center want to know more about why patients with HIV are highly susceptible to contracting tuberculosis (TB). Using two new grants, totaling $8.4 million from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the Tulane team lead by Deepak Kaushal hopes to figure out how the bacterium that causes TB invades T-cells depleted by HIV. The researchers will also study if B-cells can be a source of protection against tuberculosis for patients battling HIV.
Oak Therapeutics announces results of bioequivalence study of company’s oral dissolvable strip for TB (post)
Results of in vivo study signifies completion of another critical milestone in company’s Phase I of NIAID contract* to develop ODS strip for anti-tuberculosis treatment option.
Researchers find mechanism involved in novel drug design with potential to treat TB (post)
A team of researchers from Instituto de Medicina Molecular (iMM) Lisboa successfully used a pioneer method to chemically modify a protein’s components with potential medical applications and an impact in the fight against tuberculosis.
Possible new TB treatment path (post)
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.
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