News about 'innovations'

7 Dec 2010
WHO Press Conference Yesterday, Mario Raviglione , Director of Stop TB, and Giorgio Roscigno, CEO of FIND, held a global press conference announcing the World Health Organization’s endorsement of the new rapid diagnostic test Xpert MTB/RIF. If implemented to scale in countries where tuberculosis (...
24 Aug 2010
A distinct whole-blood 86-gene transcriptional signature of active TB (Figure 2 in the paper) Last week, a paper was published in Nature by Matthew Berry, Christine Graham et al. which received a fair amount of notice. The authors presented data identifying a probable TB gene signature in people...
6 Jul 2010
TB Alliance and DNDi Enter into a Unique Collaboration New Potential TB Drugs to be Investigated Against Multiple Neglected Diseases A Unique Collaboration: TB Alliance and DND i Enter Cross-Disease License Agreement to Speed Development of Novel Therapies New York, United States and Geneva,...
24 Mar 2010
CPTR could deliver a new TB regimen in just 6 years as opposed to 24 After a decades-long drought, new pharmaceutical discoveries and repurposing of existing antimicrobials have produced about 10 drugs from 7 different classes which are now in various stages of clinical development for TB. Many...
17 Mar 2010
Today marks the launch of an exciting new initiative in TB R&D. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has supported the Critical Path to TB Drug Regimens (CPTR). The CPTR comprises a broad collaborative network of partners including pharmaceutical companies, government, academia, and...
8 Mar 2010
autophagy by any other name... The WGND blog is in the R&D vanguard! Recently, Nick Be wrote a post highlighting the activation of the cellular ‘self-eating’ mechanism known as autophagy in the elimination of TB from an infected individual. On March 5, 2010, Cell published a paper by Kumar and...
18 Feb 2010
This interview originally appeared on Planeta Salud’s website . Pere Joan Cardona For 15 years, Dr. Cardona has focused his studies on infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) has developed a hypothesis and dynamics of tuberculosis infection, which could explain why the Koch bacillus...
17 Feb 2010
Can Vitamin-D from sunshine help TB treatment?(photo: Jon Sullivan, courtesy of Public Domain Photos) One of the characteristics making M. tuberculosis such an insidious killer is its uncanny ability to thwart many of our best defenses. Whether through hiding itself in our lungs for years or...

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