In a lab in the heart of Boston, professor Bree Aldridge leads a team of researchers trying to understand a threat that is ...

Tuberculosis, the world's deadliest infectious disease, is estimated to infect around 10 million people each year, and kills ...

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Different types of immune cells form, so-called granulomas, in which M. tuberculosis can survive for years (latent infection). They fall into a permanently inactive state with reduced metabolic ...