Built using pluripotent stem cells, this tiny lung could help push science away from animal testing as well as open the doors ...

In a lab in the heart of Boston, professor Bree Aldridge leads a team of researchers trying to understand a threat that is both microscopic in size and global in consequence. The subject of Aldridge’s ...

"The air sacs in the lungs are a critical first barrier against infections in humans, but we've traditionally looked at them ...

The immune system remains seriously out-of-whack—in an inflammatory state of overactivation and impaired ...

Researchers at the University of Basel have developed a microscopic testing approach that measures whether antibiotics truly ...

Scientists have made a discovery that helps explain why humans and animals are so susceptible to contracting tuberculosis (TB ...

Researchers have identified a mechanism by which Mycobacterium tuberculosis exploits a key immune receptor to survive inside ...

Some antibiotics stop bacteria from growing without actually killing them, allowing infections to return later. Scientists at ...

There is no highly effective vaccine against tuberculosis (TB), which remains an infection of global concern. Charles Kyriakos Vorkas, MD, an infectious diseases physician-scientist at the Renaissance ...