"The air sacs in the lungs are a critical first barrier against infections in humans, but we've traditionally looked at them ...

The immune system remains seriously out-of-whack—in an inflammatory state of overactivation and impaired ...

Built using pluripotent stem cells, this tiny lung could help push science away from animal testing as well as open the doors ...

People and animals are very susceptible to infections from Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), the bacterium that causes ...

An international team co-led by the University of Exeter discovered that Mycobacterium tuberculosis hijacks the immune ...

Researchers discovered how the Lsr2 protein silences foreign DNA in tuberculosis bacteria. By forming protein condensates on ...

Scientists have made a discovery that helps explain why humans and animals are so susceptible to contracting tuberculosis(TB) ...

This CDC illustration shows what the tuberculosis bacteria looks like. A Broward high school and Miami’s federal detention center have each confirmed an active case of tuberculosis, one of the ...

Although drug-resistant tuberculosis is so deadly in part because some first-choice antibiotics fail to kill TB bacteria, the TB bacteria may also be undermining the body’s ability to defend itself, a ...

Some antibiotics stop bacteria from growing without actually killing them, allowing infections to return later. Scientists at ...

Ocular TB is a rare eye disease due to infection from Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the same bacterium that causes tuberculosis, commonly known as TB. TB symptoms usually start in the lungs, but they ...