news
Non-antibiotic drug developed to treat TB
Scientists at The University of Manchester have developed the first non-antibiotic drug to successfully treat tuberculosis in animals...
List view / Grid view
Tuberculosis (TB)
news
Gene signature holds promise for early detection of active TB
A gene signature in the bloodstream could reveal whether someone is going to develop active tuberculosis (TB) disease months before symptoms begin.
news
Link between TB and Parkinson’s disease identified
The mechanism our immune cells use to clear bacterial infections like tuberculosis might also be implicated in Parkinson's disease...
news
Novel metabolic mechanism holds potential as tuberculosis drug target
Researchers from the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, New York, have discovered a key metabolic mechanism in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) bacteria, which presents as a novel drug target for potentially treating tuberculosis.
news
Optibrium, Imperial College and DNDi to collaborate on drug development
The collaboration will provide MSc students with industry-relevant learning tools and pharma with a new pipeline of candidate compounds.
news
Dartmouth tuberculosis vaccine passes important milestone
Investigators at Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine announced that two new studies of DAR-901, their investigational vaccine against tuberculosis (TB), have moved it to the forefront of new vaccines in development for global control of this deadly infectious disease.
news
Tuberculosis: Researchers uncover how bacteria burst our cells
Scientists unveil the complex molecular structure that causes lethal infections by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). Their findings might have implications for potential therapies against antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis.
news
New drug lead identified in fight against Tuberculosis
Believed by many to be a relic of past centuries, tuberculosis (TB) causes more deaths than any other infectious disease including HIV/AIDs. In 2015 there were an estimated 10.4 million new cases of TB and 1.4 million deaths from the disease.
news
TB Alliance and Takeda advance programme to find new TB treatments
22 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
TB Alliance and Takeda are to explore hits generated from a high-throughput screening programme conducted to find novel compounds to treat tuberculosis...
news
TB drug could also target visceral leishmaniasis
24 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Delamanid could also be a powerful tool to combat visceral leishmaniasis researchers at the University of Dundee have found...
news
New biomarkers for TB could lead to improved vaccines
12 April 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
A team of scientists have identified new biomarkers for TB which have shown for the first time why immunity from the widely used BCG vaccine is so variable...
news
New method inhibits the growth of TB causing bacteria
5 April 2016 | By Victoria White
A research team investigated the impact of compounds related to cholesterol on the TB causing bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis...
news
Researchers identify promising drug combination for tuberculosis
29 March 2016 | By Victoria White
Researchers used feedback system control to quickly narrow combinations of 14 different tuberculosis drugs with five different doses into several promising combination treatments...
news
Collaboration to develop new treatments for tuberculosis
8 March 2016 | By Victoria White
Scientists at the Universities of Dundee and Cape Town are teaming up with Bayer to develop critically needed new treatments for tuberculosis...