The cloud bed trend has taken over, with more retailers (and designers) offering upholstered bed frames. “Upholstered bed ...

Consumption, phthisis, the white plague—a killer by any other name, tuberculosis (TB) has stalked humanity since at least the ...

Tuberculosis bacteria rely on a family of genes that help them survive the challenging journey from one person's lungs to ...

The scientists had stressed that the idea of airborne transmission of the new virus was still mostly theoretical, but they’d ...

Cold germs from someone’s nose or cough can live on surfaces for hours to days, depending on many factors. Learn which ...

Tuberculosis bacteria rely on a family of genes that help them survive the challenging journey from one person's lungs to another person's during coughing, sneezing or talking, according to ...

Study by MIT and others identifies genes essential for tuberculosis bacterium’s survival during airborne transmission.

How these bacteria survive their airborne journey is key to their persistence, but very little is known about how they ...

How these bacteria survive their airborne journey is key to their persistence, but very little is known about how they protect themselves as they waft from one host to the next. Now MIT researchers ...

While it’s been widely believed for a long time that closing the toilet lid before flushing prevents the spread of airborne bacteria and germs, also known as “toilet plume,” it turns out that keeping ...