Global efforts to protect children against diseases including measles, polio and tuberculosis have stalled since 2010, leaving millions vulnerable to deadly infections.

Another cryo-electron microscope structure of MmpL4 bound to desferrated mycobactin identified the precise binding site for mycobactin on the cytosol-exposed region of MmpL4, just inside the inner ...

Electron microscopes are some of the most powerful tools in science, allowing us to capture images at a scale so tiny that we can observe individual atoms! Unlike traditional light microscopes ...

Public health officials confirm case of tuberculosis at Portland-area middle school. Families express concerns about disease's spread.

A 10-foot microscope reveals big lessons about the tiniest threats to the human body A technological revolution is helping Scripps Research scientists see the molecules that undermine human health ...

The term suggests a device for scanning broccoli, but it is utter nonsense. There are scanning electron microscopes and tunnelling electron microscopes, but not vegetative electron microscopes.

What is TB? Tuberculosis, also known as TB, is a bacterial infection that primarily affects a person's lungs. Its symptoms vary widely depending on how the slow-growing mycobacterium that causes ...

John Green’s new book, Everything Is Tuberculosis, reveals how social injustice sustains the disease, despite available cures and vaccines.

Prevention of drug-resistant tuberculosis is a global health priority. However, trials evaluating the effectiveness of treating Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection among contacts of persons with d ...

Worldwide, approximately 2 million children younger than 15 years of age are infected with multidrug-resistant (MDR) Mycobacterium tuberculosis, with MDR tuberculosis developing in approximately 30 ...

Before Robert Koch in 1882 discovered Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacteria that causes TB, many thought the disease was hereditary. 2 It has also been known as phthisis, white plague ...

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, introduced a groundbreaking transmission electron microscope to a packed room of a ...