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Shining a light on first contact in tuberculosis

In the science fiction series Star Trek, first contact between species occurs on a galactic scale; a recurring theme whose consequences are richly developed and explored throughout the series. In infection biology, first contact of a susceptible host with an infectious agent, albeit on a... click to read more

Vivek V. Thacker | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

host-pathogen interactions

tuberculosis

Organ-on-chip

live-cell imaging

pulmonary surfactant

Reading time 3.5 min

published on Mar 30, 2021

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