Tuberculosis News

June 20, 2025

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Could 'Pausing' Cell Death Be the Final Frontier in Medicine on Earth and Beyond?

May 30, 2025 — The process of necrosis, a form of cell death, may represent one of the most promising ways to change the course of human aging, disease and even space travel, according to a new ...

Leprosy Existed in America Long Before Arrival of Europeans

May 29, 2025 — Long considered a disease brought to the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may actually have a much older history on the American continent. Scientists reveal that a recently identified second species of bacteria responsible for leprosy, ...

Why Some Viral Infections Appear to Trigger Autoimmune Disease

May 20, 2025 — By studying Chikungunya virus, scientists shed light on how immune responses to viral infections may lead to persistent symptoms of autoimmune ...

New Molecular Label Could Lead to Simpler, Faster Tuberculosis Tests

May 5, 2025 — Chemists found a way to identify a complex sugar molecule in the cell walls of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the world's deadliest pathogen. This labeling could lead to simpler, faster TB ...

Novel Rat Model Paves the Way to Advance COPD-Associated Cor Pulmonale Research

May 2, 2025 — Researchers have developed a novel rat model that closely replicates the pathological features and physiological changes associated with human chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)-associated ...

New Drug Shows Promise for Treating Bronchiectasis

May 2, 2025 — Results of a large, global clinical trial spanning five continents with over 1,700 patients with bronchiectasis has demonstrated benefits of an investigational, once-a-day pill called brenso catib as a therapy for the chronic lung condition. It may ...

Breakthrough Approach for Diagnosing TB Could Significantly Improve Detection

Apr. 25, 2025 — A new strategy for tuberculosis (TB) screening provides a solution to problems with current TB screening, which does not always accurately detect disease. Simultaneously screening for both active and ...

Experimental Cancer Drug Could Streamline Standard Tuberculosis Treatment and Prevent Post-TB Lung Disease, Study Suggests

Apr. 22, 2025 — An experimental drug now in clinical trials as a cancer treatment could help boost the power of first-line tuberculosis (TB) treatments by helping infected cells die a gentler death, investigators ...

A New Smartphone-Sized Device Can Test for Tuberculosis: Here's Why That Matters for Children

Apr. 11, 2025 — This handheld device is the first that can detect tuberculosis in saliva, in addition to blood and sputum samples, an important breakthrough for testing children and HIV patients, who struggle to ...

Researchers Use AI to Improve Diagnosis of Drug-Resistant Infections

Apr. 7, 2025 — Scientists have developed an artificial intelligence-based method to more accurately detect antibiotic resistance in deadly bacteria such as tuberculosis and staph. The breakthrough could lead to faster and more effective treatments and help ...

Molecular Stool Test Could Improve Detection of Tuberculosis in Adults With HIV

Apr. 4, 2025 — The Xpert MTB/Ultra molecular diagnostic test for stool samples, until now recommended only for children, could be established as an additional test for diagnosing tuberculosis in adults living with ...

Understanding the Immune Response to a Persistent Pathogen

Mar. 28, 2025 — Researchers show that the immune system can recognize and control the latent stage of the parasite Toxoplasma gondii, a finding that can inform the study of latency in other infections of the nervous ...

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Novel Pathway Has Potential to Slow Progression of Pulmonary Fibrosis

Mar. 25, 2025 — Researchers have found a potential new way to slow the progression of lung fibrosis and other fibrotic diseases by inhibiting the expression or function of Piezo2, a receptor that senses mechanical ...

Peacekeeper Cells Protect the Body from Autoimmunity During Infection

Mar. 21, 2025 — New research shows how a specially trained population of immune cells keeps the peace by preventing other immune cells from attacking their own. The study provides a better understanding of immune ...

Team Finds Regional, Age-Related Trends in Exposure to Drug-Resistant Pathogen

Mar. 20, 2025 — Campylobacter infections are the most common foodborne illnesses in the U.S., sickening an estimated 1.5 million people each year. A new study ...

Tuberculosis Relies on Protective Genes During Airborne Transmission

Mar. 10, 2025 — Scientists discovered genes in the tuberculosis bacterium that becomes essential for the pathogen's survival when it's exposed to air through coughing. These genes could be targets for new therapies ...

Breakthrough CRISPR-Based Test Offers Faster, More Accurate Diagnosis for Fungal Pneumonia

Mar. 7, 2025 — Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP) is the most common fungal pneumonia in children. But current diagnostic methods can take days an require an ...

Designing Self-Destructing Bacteria to Make Effective Tuberculosis Vaccines

Feb. 25, 2025 — Working toward more effective tuberculosis (TB) vaccines, researchers have developed two strains of mycobacteria with 'kill switches' that can be triggered to stop the bacteria after they activate an ...

Pulmonary Fibrosis: Study Targets Proteins to Reverse Lung Scarring

Feb. 19, 2025 — A discovery offers new hope in the battle against pulmonary fibrosis, a debilitating lung condition that progressively makes it harder for patients to breathe. Scientists have pinpointed proteins in ...

A Treatment-Resistant, Severe Type of Asthma Successfully Modeled in Mice

Feb. 18, 2025 — Researchers are tackling neutrophilic asthma, successfully developing one of the first mouse models of the ...

Diabetes Can Drive the Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance

Feb. 14, 2025 — Researchers have proven that antibiotic-resistant strains of a harmful bacteria thrive in a diabetic infection ...

Blood Test Eases Diagnosis of Invasive Mold Disease

Feb. 10, 2025 — A new blood test is designed to find mold infections deep inside the body, sparing patients from tissue ...

Study Finds Three New Safe, Effective Ways to Treat Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis

Jan. 29, 2025 — Study finds three new safe and effective drug regimens to fight multidrug-resistant TB. The treatments, which include recently discovered TB drugs, give new options for shorter, personalized ...

Antibiotic Treatment for Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Found to Be Safe and Effective in Clinical Trial

Jan. 15, 2025 — Sydney researchers have found that Levofloxacin substantially reduces risk of drug-resistant tuberculosis. This discovery offers new hope against a disease that infects more than 400,000 people ...

Self-Destructing Vaccine Offers Enhanced Protection Against Tuberculosis in Monkeys

Jan. 10, 2025 — The in-built in protection mechanisms offer a safer and more effective way to combat the deadliest disease of ...

Tuberculosis Strains Resistant to New Drugs Are Transmitted Between Patients

Jan. 6, 2025 — Tuberculosis (TB) is the world's biggest infectious disease killer with multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) posing a particular threat to global health. A study shows that resistance to the new ...

Research Points the Way to Lifesaving Antiparasitic Drugs While Unlocking a Scientific Mystery

Dec. 20, 2024 — A breakthrough in understanding how a single-cell parasite makes ergosterol (its version of cholesterol) could lead to more effective drugs for human leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease that afflicts ...

Peat-Bog Fungi Produce Substances That Kill Tuberculosis-Causing Bacteria

Dec. 3, 2024 — An analysis of fungi collected from peat bogs has identified several species that produce substances toxic to the bacterium that causes the human disease tuberculosis. The findings suggest that one ...

Long COVID Brain Fog Linked to Lung Function

Nov. 27, 2024 — In patients with long COVID, lower pulmonary gas exchange may be associated with impaired cognitive function, according to a new ...

Achilles Heel of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

Nov. 16, 2024 — To stem the surging antibiotic resistance public health crisis, scientists seek solutions inside the mechanics of bacterial infection. A new study has found a vulnerability related to magnesium ...

'Achilles Heel' of Drug-Resistant Pathogens

Nov. 13, 2024 — A new study has found highly vulnerable weakness in drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis, offering a new way to kill ...

Researchers Reveal Why a Key Tuberculosis Drug Works Against Resistant Strains

Nov. 13, 2024 — A new study uncovers vulnerabilities in drug-resistant TB, offering hope for improved ...

Immune Cell Discovery Offers New Potential for Cancer Immunotherapy

Oct. 25, 2024 — Researchers have identified a novel type of immune cell, called the stem-like CD4 T cell, that plays a pivotal role in anti-tumor immunity. The pre-clinical findings highlight the potential to ...

Bacterial Pathogen Shows Alarming Resistance to Common Cleaners, Chemists Discover

Oct. 24, 2024 — A new study reveals widespread resistance of a major bacterial pathogen to the active ingredients in cleaning agents commonly used in hospitals and ...

Study Finds Tuberculosis Changes Liver Metabolism and Could Promote Diabetes

Oct. 21, 2024 — Scientists have discovered that tuberculosis disrupts glucose metabolism in the ...

Study Identifies Potential Novel Drug to Treat Tuberculosis

Oct. 3, 2024 — A new study identified that a semi-synthetic compound can be derived from natural compounds and shows potent activity against tuberculosis (TB), including multi-drug resistant ...

Plant Compound Used in Traditional Medicine May Help Fight Tuberculosis

Oct. 2, 2024 — A compound found in African wormwood -- a plant used medicinally for thousands of years to treat many types of illness -- could be effective against tuberculosis, according to a new ...

Fever Drives Enhanced Activity, Mitochondrial Damage in Immune Cells

Sep. 20, 2024 — Fever temperatures rev up immune cell metabolism, proliferation and activity, but they also -- in a particular subset of T cells -- cause mitochondrial stress, DNA damage and cell death, researchers ...

Researchers Discover Immune Response to Dengue Can Predict Risk of Severe Reinfections

Sep. 20, 2024 — A new study highlights the role of natural killer T cells in influencing the immune response to dengue virus, potentially reducing the severity of subsequent ...

TB Under the Sea: A Marine Sponge Microbe Provides Insights Into the Evolution of Tuberculosis

Aug. 30, 2024 — The surprising discovery of a bacterium in a marine sponge from the Great Barrier Reef with striking similarity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the pathogen responsible for tuberculosis (TB), could ...

Which Strains of Tuberculosis Are the Most Infectious?

Aug. 1, 2024 — Highly localized TB strains are less infectious in cosmopolitan cities and more likely to infect people from the geographic area that is the strain's natural habitat. The research provides the ...

Researchers Decipher New Molecular Mechanisms Related to Biological Tissue Regeneration

July 29, 2024 — A study opens new perspectives to better understand how the molecular mechanisms involved in regenerative medicine work. The study focuses on tumor necrosis factor- (TNF- ) and its receptors TNFR, ...