An accomplished infectious disease scientist, Meyers spent the 1960s treating and studying the condition in central Africa.

What researchers are learning as they sequence, map, and decode species’ genomes

Researchers sequence the genome of Mycobacterium lepromatosis, a recently discovered sister species to the primary leprosy-causing bacterium.

Mycobacterium smegmatis can donate larger portions of its genome to other bacteria than previously thought, approaching the level of gene shuffling seen in sexual reproduction.

Reinvestigating a natural antibiotic compound reveals its potential as a tuberculosis drug.

The patients were working out in a hospital's warm therapeutic pool in Boulder, Colorado, when Mark Hernandez walked in and dipped sterile bottles in the water.