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Tufts University
Published: June 13, 2023, 12:57 p.m.·
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Scientific research
At Tufts University School of Medicine, Shumin Tan is investigating the human-microbe relationship to advance not just an understanding of tuberculosis, but any infection.
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Tufts University
Published: Sept. 14, 2022, 1:01 p.m.·
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Treatment,
Scientific research
Imagine you have 20 new compounds that have shown some effectiveness in treating a disease like tuberculosis (TB), which affects 10 million people worldwide and kills 1.5 million each year. You know that to treat the disease effectively, patients will need a combination of three or four drugs because TB bacteria behave differently in different environments—and in some cases, evolve to become drug-resistant.
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Tufts University
Published: July 23, 2020, 2:33 p.m.·
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Scientific research
Technology combines rapid imaging and machine learning to uncover patterns in how antibacterials kill; can be applied to many pathogens
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Tufts University
Published: July 11, 2016, 5:42 a.m.·
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Treatment
New study identifies differences between subpopulations of mycobacteria with variable antibiotic susceptibilities
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