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valmizrahi.bsky.social @valmizrahi.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis biology, pathogenicity and interaction with the host - Nature Reviews Microbiology
In this Review, Warner, Barczak, Gutierrez and Mizrahi explore essential aspects of Mycobacterium tuberculosis physiology and biology, present recent advances related to its pathogenesis, metabolism a...
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Max Gutierrez @maxgg.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
‼️ Save the date! ‼️ Tuberculosis: Understanding the Disease Across Scales Keystone 2026 on March 23-26 in Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦 Very excited to organise this meeting with Digby, Bree and Margarida Short Talk Abstract Deadline: Nov. 24, 2025 www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Now that the policy is out, we've rolled out an updated version of the story. bsky.app/profile/maxk...
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
NEW: An NIH policy coming in the next week will target — and at least temporarily stop — funding outside the US, threatening thousands of projects and collaborations on topics like infectious diseases and cancer. Some NIH staff have already been told to hold all subaward funds for foreign labs.
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Exclusive: NIH to suspend funds for research abroad as it overhauls policy
Move by US biomedical agency threatens thousands of projects on infectious diseases, cancer and more.
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Joanne Flynn @joanneflynn19.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Tuberculosis is not going away. If the cutting edge research goes away, #TB will rage on. Harvard is being targeted including the TB Immunology contract and that trickles down to all of us working on these studies. Progress will be halted. And TB will flourish. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/08/m...
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‘This looks bad.’ A Harvard infectious disease researcher is targeted in Trump’s review. - The Boston Globe
Sarah Fortune’s tuberculosis research was the number one project on a list of threatened funding.
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University of Cape Town's Faculty of Health Sciences Research @uct-fhs-research.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Comorbidities - co-occurring infectious or chronic conditions in a person - is a major exacerbating factor for #TB in South Africa, with high rates of #HIV and #NCDs. Cutting edge research at University of Cape Town is tacking this: health.uct.ac.za/news-publica...
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Jon Cohen @cohenjon.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
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“Orchestrated assault”: New tsunami of NIH grant cuts hits South Africa hard
Agency moves to terminate nearly 1000 awards, including programs involving “DEI”
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11/03/2025
The gutting of USAID has crippled tuberculosis programs, leaving hundreds of thousands of patients without tests or drugs and at risk of spreading the disease.
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Tuberculosis Resurgent as Trump Funding Cut Disrupts Treatment Globally
The United States was the major funder of tuberculosis programs. Now hundreds of thousands of sick patients can’t find tests or drugs, and risk spreading the disease.
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Jason Andrews @jasonandrews.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
ID community, let's stand up for science today. Silence will not protect our research, which is vital to protecting our communities from infectious diseases. Let's stand up for them
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Wilbert Bitter @wilbertbitter.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
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Structural basis of siderophore export and drug efflux by Mycobacterium tuberculosis - Nature Communications
Mycobacteria produce small molecules (mycobactins) to acquire the essential nutrient iron. Here, Earp et al determine the cryo-EM structures of the mycobactin exporter MmpL4, which also effluxes the T...
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