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 ...

Researchers have developed an RNA-seq method for investigating drug-resistant infections, and we got the inside scoop!

The COVID-19 pandemic has played a pivotal role in the resurgence of TB. Cases increased globally by 4.6% from 2020 to 2023, reversing decades of steady declines in the disease. In the US alone, TB ...

When she first heard about the opening of an art exhibit curated by a pair of musical savants, Leslie Barlow, a Black artist ...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the organism that causes the disease tuberculosis ... Similarly, it was called the white plague or white death – due to anemia from the disease, with people appearing ...

according to “The Hairstons,” a 1999 book by Henry Wiencek that chronicles the Black and white Hairston families. Samuel Hairston, the plantation's owner, was reputedly the largest enslaver in ...

Credit: Anna Vazhaeparambil On Feb. 12, author Maria Smilios visited Penn to present her book featuring the stories of Black nurses who worked during the tuberculosis epidemic ... She went on to ...

For years, he said, it didn’t even occur to him to draw Black characters because he had never seen them represented in the books he read. Phillips has been drawing most of his life — since he ...

For reasons that are obvious in retrospect, the industrial revolution accelerated the spread of tuberculosis, then often called the “white plague,” as populations crammed into cities to work ...

Why doesn’t the public know more about the troubling tuberculosis outbreak in eastern ... CDC fear of a high-handed reaction from the White House would be a weak excuse. Schaffner is correct ...

said he believes the speaker’s address “wasn’t really about uniting people” but rather trying to link the mayor to Trump and draw black and “white liberal” voters away from the mayor.