A vaccine protects more than 100 million infants each year from severe tuberculosis (TB), including the fatal brain swelling ...

Tessella Biosciences, a McMaster University-backed start-up, has produced a bioink that can be used to 3D print simulated lung tissue.

There are many things we’ve learned from studying the ancient Egyptians. One especially fascinating discovery was evidence of ...

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Two of the diseases that can have a serious impact on lung function are Tuberculosis (TB) and Pulmonary Fibrosis. While both result in respiratory symptoms and lung injury, they are radically ...

A study in Nature Communications reveals, for the first time, how the transcriptomic profile of human tuberculosis lung lesions is correlated with clinical data from the same patients.

Hemoptysis can range from occasional blood streaks to frank bleeding, indicating erosion of lung tissue or blood vessel damage from advanced tuberculosis infection.

Figure 2: At 21 days post-Mtb H37Rv infection, hyperglycemic (DM) mice and DM-TB mice display comparable tissue bacterial loads to Mtb infected (TB) group with distinct serum cytokine and lung immune ...

The study demonstrates that diabetes impairs lung immune cell infiltration and contributes to a dampened immune response against Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Reduced Th1 and M1 macrophage populations ...

Introduction Tuberculosis (TB) remains a critical global public health challenge, and there is an urgent need to improve the diagnosis and management of post-TB lung disease (PTLD). We aimed to ...

Study Suggests Experimental Cancer Drug Could Streamline Standard Tuberculosis Treatment and Prevent Post-TB Lung Disease 04/17/2025 ...

A paucity of human lung tissue for study has left a fundamental gap in understanding how the bacterial pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis, or Mtb, causes disease in people, says Steyn, a ...