Dragonfly screen optimizer helps researchers tackle tuberculosis

How open science helps researchers succeed

Open access, open data, open source and other open scholarship practices are growing in popularity and necessity. However, widespread adoption of these practices has not yet been achieved. One reason is that researchers are uncertain about how sharing their work will affect their careers. We review literature demonstrating that open research is associated with increases in citations, media atte...

Health course helps Inuit interpreters tackle tough jobs.

Medical college of Wisconsin researchers tackle concussions from all angles.

The national dialogue on traumatic brain injury has reached significant amplitude with the public platform of professional sports raising awareness, the experiences of soldiers over a decade of war reinforcing the implications, and the medical community rising with innovative efforts to improve diagnosis and care. Of the estimated 3.8 million traumatic brain injuries (TBI) sustained each year i...

High time to tackle childhood tuberculosis.

When Robert Koch published his groundbreaking paper on the aetiology of tuberculosis (TB) in 1882, he reported that about a third of the working population died of TB [1]. World TB Day today should remind us not only about the first identification of the tubercle bacillus but also that the main burden of the TB epidemic has shifted from Europe to other regions in the world. The 329,391 reported...

A High-Throughput Screen for Tuberculosis Progression

One-third of the world population is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis and multi-drug resistant strains are rapidly evolving. The noticeable absence of a whole organism high-throughput screening system for studying the progression of tuberculosis is fast becoming the bottleneck in tuberculosis research. We successfully developed such a system using the zebrafish Mycobacterium marinum inf...