The BMJ inquiry finds that researchers presented only select results from animal experiments when applying for funding and approval for human trials.

The new test could improve upon two current methods to diagnose tuberculosis—a skin test or culturing bacteria from saliva, both of which take days.

Research efforts aim to obviate the need for vaccine refrigeration.

Researchers in the U.K. report that badgers may be passing tuberculosis to farm animals not through direct contact, as was previously suspected, but through exposure to urine and feces.

Eighteenth-century DNA sequences yield insights into the history of tuberculosis infections.

Take a trip to the mummy museum in Vác, Hungary, to see the human remains that helped researchers learn more about the origins of tuberculosis in Europe.

Scientists add a mouse gene to the cow genome to ward off bovine tuberculosis.

Genomic analysis of a multidrug-resistant lineage pinpoints historical correlations with human events.

Researchers have isolated a new kind of antibiotic from a previously unknown and uncultured bacterial genus.  

Alan Aderem earned his PhD while under house arrest for protesting apartheid in South Africa. His early political involvement has guided his scientific focus, encouraging fellow systems biologists to study immunology and infectious diseases.