WHEN splenectomy in thrombocytopenic patients has on occasion revealed the tuberculous origin of a splenic enlargement, the post-operative results have been dramatic. Surgical intervention has removed ...

One person has died and at least four have been sickened by tuberculosis in infected bone materials, an outbreak that has cast a spotlight on the shortcomings of testing for such tissue products. It’s ...

Tuberculosis (TB) vaccines, including the well-known Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine, have focused on stimulating the adaptive immune system. Unfortunately, attempts to rouse the adaptive ...

Understanding how bone marrow produces blood–and how this whole process can fail–is critical to fighting blood cancers and ...

Our body's "blood factory" consists of specialized tissue made up of bone cells, blood vessels, nerves and other cell types.

Immunologists have shown that a drug used to fight arthritis also stops the process that allows the tuberculosis bacillus to infect and hijack blood stem cells. Immunologist Johan Van Weyenbergh (KU ...

Researchers recently developed a bone marrow model to study how the body generates cells. Interestingly, this model is the ...

Blood cancers such as leukemia are caused by genetic changes in the blood-forming stem cells of the bone marrow. Scientists ...