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Ben Usher

joined in Feb 26, 2021

PhD Student at Department of Biosciences, Durham University, Durham, UK.

Usher has 1 break published.

Tuberculosis drug discovery: an in-house toxin blocks pathogenic bacterial growth

Infectious diseases rank among the greatest threats to human health. While the world stumbles through the current COVID-19 pandemic, a vast array of viral, fungal, parasitic, and bacterial pathogens continue to threaten people's lives. Before the rise of the pandemic, tuberculosis was the world's deadliest... click to read more

Yiming Cai | PhD Student at Laboratoire de Microbiologie et Génétique Moléculaires (LMGM), CNRS, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France

Ben Usher | PhD Student at Department of Biosciences, Durham University, Durham, UK

bacteria

infectious diseases

tuberculosis

Mycobacterium tuberculosis

toxin-antitoxin system

Reading time 3 min

published on Feb 26, 2021