TB Gene Therapy

New York State Researchers Aim to Unravel TB's Genetic Code

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, June 26th, 1995

Researchers at a New York State research center are busily working on the assumption that unraveling TB's genetic code could allow the development of "smart" antibiotics, which could disarm the proteins that allow TB cells to evade attack by phagocytes.

Kathleen McDonough, a cell biologist at the New York Health Department's Wadsworth Center for Laboratories and Research in Albany, New York, studies the minute interactions between TB cells and their hosts.

McDonough told a reporter for the Albany Times Union, "What we're trying to do is understand how it is that these microbes cause disease." Chief among her interests is the question: how do TB...

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