Emerging drug-resistant strains are posing significant challenges to the global fight against tuberculosis (TB) and it is a critical task to detect treatment failure as early as possible.

tuberculosis. This test, the so-called Molecular Bacterial Load Assay (MBLA) represents a novel innovative tool for monitoring TB treatment. The assay measures M. tuberculosis 16S rRNA ...

Chromatin, the mix of DNA and protein that houses each cell's genome, is more resilient to aging than previously thought, suggests a study published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society by ...

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Far from being uniform in structure and function ... Interferon-stimulated gene 15 (ISG15), a ubiquitin-like molecule with two ubiquitin fold repeats, contains the same C-terminal sequence ...

This study presents TBorNotTB, a CDSS designed to improve TB evaluation and streamline isolation decisions, reducing labor ...

This paper addresses the important question of quantifying epistasis patterns, which affect the predictability of evolution, by reanalyzing a recently published combinatorial deep mutational scan ...

Tuberculosis (TB) cases are surging, fuelling fears England may see a resurgence of the Victorian-era illness. The latest UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) figures show 5,480 people were struck ...

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Zika Uses Human Skin as 'Mosquito Magnet' to Spread Virus Further Jan. 30, 2025 — Zika virus hijacks the skin of its human host to send out chemical signals that lure more mosquitoes to infect ...

Importantly the research team isolated a molecule produced by gut bacteria that in the future ... Could a Dietary Fiber Supplement Offer Long-Awaited Treatment for Food Allergy Sufferers?

MOHALI: Two former Punjab Police cops, both aged over 70, were on Tuesday awarded life sentence for the killing of an Army jawan and a farmer, falsely implicated in a murder case and accused of ...