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New cell profiling method could speed TB drug discovery – EurekAlert
A new cell profiling technology combines high throughput imaging and machine learning to provide a rapid, cost-effective way to determine how specific compounds act to destroy the bacterium that causes tuberculosis. It could speed discovery of anti-TB drugs a…
IMAGE: A medical illustration of drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria.
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Credit: CDC/ Alissa Eckert; James Archer
BOSTON (July 23, 2020)–A new technology that combines high throughput imaging and machine learning could speed discovery of drugs to fight tuberculosis, which for generations has killed more people worldwide than any other disease caused by a single agent–4,000 people every day.
Current treatment requires multiple drugs for at least six months and somet…
