Leprosy has existed since at least Biblical times, yet scientists still don't know exactly how Mycobacterium leprae causes the disease's symptoms. Though antibiotics can treat the illness, researchers ...

The Research Brief is a short take on interesting academic work. To investigate this connection, we turned to 10 natural history museums in the U.S. These institutions offer more than just public ...

Leprosy. We’ve all heard of it, but do you really know what causes it? What does the word make you think of? A disease that people got a long, long time ago? A super-contagious condition that causes ...

Leprosy has existed since at least Biblical times, yet scientists still don’t know exactly how Mycobacterium leprae causes the disease’s symptoms. Though antibiotics can treat the illness, researchers ...

For the past 25 years, Anura Rambukkana has been studying a disease that’s already been cured. He studies leprosy, a disease that was once the scourge of humanity before a course of drugs developed in ...

In order to understand the role of the upstream region of the Mycobacterium leprae 18-kDa gene on the gene regulation, the region was divided into two at the -50 position from the first start codon of ...

Researchers discovered that the leprosy pathogen Mycobacterium leprae was able to evade immune activity that is dependent on vitamin D, a natural hormone that plays an essential role in the body's ...

A bit of medical advice: Stay away from medieval squirrels. That’s what a study in Current Biology seems to suggest, anyway, after showing that red squirrels hosted strains of the leprosy bacteria ...

IN 1872 Hansen characterized Mycobacterium leprae as the causative agent in human leprosy. Hitherto, all attempts to cultivate this organism in vitro or to transmit it to experimental animals have met ...

A DNA probe encoding ~80% of the 18-kDa protein gene of Mycobacterium leprae was isolated and tested for specificity by assessing hybridization of the probe to genomic DNA from taxonomically related ...

The report of a major triglycosyl phenol phthiocerol (phenolic) glycolipid in some strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis that resembles the phenolic glycolipid I of Mycobacterium leprae raised the ...

Years-old tissue samples from armadillos in museum collections may harbor Mycobacterium leprae, the bacteria that causes Hansen's disease, also called leprosy, according to recent research my ...