New drugs that target "zombie" tuberculosis (TB) cells are now a step closer, thanks to a new study led by the University of ...

How cord-like aggregates of bacteria lead to tuberculosis infections. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 10 / 231020182019.htm ...

The ability of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), a serious respiratory infection, to form snake-like cords was first noted nearly 80 years ago. In a study published October 20 in the journal Cell ...

Xin Wang et al, Engineered Mycobacterium tuberculosis triple-kill-switch strain provides controlled tuberculosis infection in ...

This 'bacteria hunter' discovered the causes of tuberculosis, anthrax, and cholera. Robert Koch, a founding father of microbiology, used hands-on experiments in the 1800s to find the bacteria ...

These experiments showed that the TB bacterium doesn’t follow expected patterns of cell growth. In other bacterial species, growth is exponential, which means cells grow slower when they are smaller.

Cells throughout our body can defend themselves from bacteria using various mechanisms. By harnessing a cellular process called autophagy, researchers at The Crick hope to boost our body’s ability to ...

20.10.2023 17:49 Why tuberculosis bacteria form long chains Dr. Stefanie Seltmann Unternehmenskommunikation Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg. A researcher team from Ecole Polytechnique Federal de ...

Tuberculosis (TB) has affected humans for millennia — even the ancient Greeks searched for a cure. But no effective treatment for TB existed until the mid-1800s, when the sanatorium, or “open ...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), a deadly respiratory illness, was discovered to be capable of forming snake-like cords approximately 80 years ago.