GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT

TB: gene editing could add new power to a 100-year-old vaccine

Our laboratory does a lot of TB research and for a long time we've been interested in the cell wall of these bacteria. We noticed that the cell wall has a small chemical decoration on the surface and that chemical decoration allows the bacteria to hide an important marker (PAMP), called the NOD-1 ligand, from the immune system.

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