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New Dry Powder Antibiotic Targets Tuberculosis, Reduces Treatment Time
November 16, 2010 — Scientists have developed an inhalable dry powder antibiotic that when used alone or with current treatments may significantly reduce treatment for tuberculosis (TB) and multi-drug resistant ... > full story -
Tuberculosis
Pharmacology
Pharmaceuticals
Infectious Diseases
Biotechnology
Biotechnology and Bioengineering
TB-Drugome Provides New Targets for Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Discovery
November 8, 2010 — Researchers have linked hundreds of federally approved drugs to more than 1,000 proteins in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB), opening new avenues to repurpose ... > full story -
New Strategy to Kill Bugs -- Even Those in Hiding
October 26, 2010 — New strategies to apply antibiotics more effectively to hibernating bugs have been developed by researchers in the ... > full story -
Key Difference in How TB Bacteria Degrade Doomed Proteins
October 17, 2010 — Scientists have discovered a key difference in the way human cells and Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria, which cause TB, deliver unwanted proteins to their respective cellular recycling factories. ... > full story -
Computer Modeling
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New Tool in the Fight Against Tuberculosis: Algorithm Enables Cell-Scale Simulations
October 7, 2010 — Researchers have developed a way to harness prodigious quantities of genomic and metabolic data by developing an algorithm that automatically integrates both data sets. The model, called ... > full story -
New TB Pathogen Discovered
September 30, 2010 — In studies of banded mongoose in Botswana, researchers have discovered a novel tuberculosis species in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. Unlike other species of tuberculosis, which typically ... > full story -
U.S. Vulnerable to Multidrug-Resistant TB Epidemic, Computer Model Shows
September 27, 2010 — While the United States has made great progress in the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis, the nation has become more susceptible to potential epidemics of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, or ... > full story -
Elderly Might Not Benefit from TB Vaccines in Development
September 20, 2010 — Elderly people might not benefit from some of the tuberculosis vaccines currently in development, recent research suggests. Some vaccines under study are designed to activate a specific molecule that ... > full story -
Possible 'Persistence' Switch for Tuberculosis Found: Computer Model Finds Probable Genetic Mechanism for TB Dormancy
September 17, 2010 — A model for the genetic "persistence" switch that toggles tuberculosis bacteria into a dormant state that resists antibiotics and immune system responses is described in a new study. An analysis of ... > full story -
Tuberculosis: How Mycobacteria Avoid Destruction Inside Human Cells
September 9, 2010 — Researchers have identified ten factors that help Mycobacterium tuberculosis avoid destruction inside host cell phagosomes. Two of the genes identified by high-throughput visual screening of 11,000 ... > full story
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