Some antibiotics stop bacteria from growing without actually killing them, allowing infections to return later. Scientists at ...

People and animals are very susceptible to infections from Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), the bacterium that causes ...

Built using pluripotent stem cells, this tiny lung could help push science away from animal testing as well as open the doors ...

An international team co-led by the University of Exeter discovered that Mycobacterium tuberculosis hijacks the immune ...

An analysis of fungi collected from peat bogs has identified several species that produce substances toxic to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the bacterium that causes tuberculosis in humans. The ...

Researchers from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) have together succeeded in identifying and synthesizing a group of molecules that can act against ...

"The air sacs in the lungs are a critical first barrier against infections in humans, but we've traditionally looked at them ...

Scientists have made a discovery that helps explain why humans and animals are so susceptible to contracting tuberculosis(TB) ...

Drugs that act against bacteria are mainly assessed based on how well they inhibit bacterial growth under laboratory ...

They report that bacteria-infecting macrophages – garbage truck-like immune cells – slow their hosts’ trash-processing abilities to snack on trash they pick up. The study, selected as Editor’s Choice ...

The immune system remains seriously out-of-whack—in an inflammatory state of overactivation and impaired ...