When the COVID-19 pandemic was at its peak, and multiple variants were threatening lives around the world, scientists relied on a process called "tiled amplicon sequencing" to track the virus's spread ...

In Johnson County, Iowa, the number of tuberculosis cases has increased in recent years—and so has the cost of containing it.

Inside every cell, thousands of molecular signals collide, overlap, and compensate, obscuring the true drivers of gene expression.

To support drug discovery, a new study has revealed fundamental features of the transcription cycle in the bacteria that causes tuberculosis.

Scientists have uncovered an elegant biophysical trick that tuberculosis-causing bacteria use to survive inside human cells, ...

Explore how tuberculosis bacteria survive within human cells, revealing potential paths for new treatments against this ...

Scientists have uncovered an elegant biophysical trick that tuberculosis-causing bacteria use to survive inside human cells, a discovery that could lead to new strategies for fighting one of the world ...

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 ...

Although drug-resistant tuberculosis is so deadly in part because some first-choice antibiotics fail to kill TB bacteria, the TB bacteria may also be undermining the body’s ability to defend itself, a ...

A highly contagious and potentially deadly disease is seeing sharp upticks—and that's in addition to the measles outbreak we're dealing with already. Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial infection that ...

A resident in southern New Jersey recently tested positive for tuberculosis. Here's what you need to know about the spread of ...

An outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) has been linked to a San Francisco high school. The San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) issued a health advisory on Jan. 29 about the outbreak, which has ...