A life-saving treatment for millions over the past 100 years, the story behind insulin s discovery and use is less well-known, and includes tussles among scientists and a battle for the Nobel Prize.
Helen Strongman and colleagues investigate the health and demographic factors associated with excess mortality during, as compared to before, the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tuberculosis (TB), caused by the bacterial pathogen
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is the leading cause of death from a single infectious agent world-wide claiming over 1.5 million lives each year. With an increase in resistance to current antibiotics means that novel drugs to kill
Mtb are urgently needed. Researchers from the University of Warwick have successfully discovered how
Mycobacterium tuberculosis uses an essential sugar to survive in the human body for long time periods; this provides a platform to design new and improved TB drugs and diagnostic agents.
Trehalose is one source of energy found in the pathogen’s own cell wall and it appears that