Researchers demonstrate a new strategy to stop the TB bacterium

Wednesday, September 18, 2013 - 15:30 in Biology & Nature

To stay ahead in the race against drug-resistant infections, scientists constantly search for and exploit vulnerabilities in deadly bacteria. Now, researchers from Brown and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have used a novel compound to exploit an Achilles' heel in the bacterium that causes tuberculosis.

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