Finding better treatments for tuberculosis, the computer is mightier than the mouse

Friday, March 10, 2017 - 15:01 in Health & Medicine

In March of 1882, Robert Koch used tissue from infected guinea pigs to show that the lung disease tuberculosis (TB) is caused by the organism Mycobacterium tuberculosis. At that time, TB (or ‘consumption’, as it ... Read more

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