One of the main challenges for tuberculosis (TB) therapy is how to deliver drugs to the site of disease. Once the body’s immune system is infected with tuberculosis, it forms granulomas—tight clusters ...

Chest xray of the patient's lungs with tuberculosis showing reticulonodular opacity involve both lungs from granulomatous TB infection. After a sustained decline in cases, England’s progress against ...

Tuberculosis (TB), caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), results in 1.5 million deaths every year, but as many as two billion people may be infected with Mtb and yet remain ...

Granuloma structure and distribution of the antibiotic BTZ-043 in differently stained tissue sections of two tuberculosis granulomas. The stains show (in z-shaped order from top left to bottom right): ...

New observations of the early stages of tuberculosis infection may turn scientists' understanding of the bug's pathogenesis on its head: clumps of immune cells, called granulomas, long thought to ...

A promising new cancer therapy also appears extremely potent against one of the world's most devastating infectious diseases: tuberculosis (TB). TB accounts for more than 1.6 million deaths worldwide ...

What could cancer teach us about tuberculosis? That's a question Meenal Datta has been chasing since she was a graduate student. Once the body's immune system is infected with tuberculosis, it forms ...

Share on Pinterest Researchers examined the blood samples of people living with tuberculosis and found unexpected links with cancer. TEK IMAGE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images A study, led by ...

In a lab in the heart of Boston, professor Bree Aldridge leads a team of researchers trying to understand a threat that is both microscopic in size and global in consequence. The subject of Aldridge’s ...