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<title>BUniverse: Videos tagged tuberculosis </title>
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<title>Three Steps to a Better World: TB&#039;s On/Off Switch</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:29:26 -0400</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Global health experts estimate that one third of the worldâ€™s population is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a bacteria whose activation causes tuberculosis. Fortunately, most m. tuberculosis genes remain inactive, but no one knows what it is that causes their activation. Lutchen Fellow Kyle Jones (ENGâ€™13) is using several fluorescent proteins to measure the expression level of these genes, as part of a research project that should help identify the TB on-off switch.

http://www.bu.edu/bme/2010/02/16/gift-to-bu-college-of-engineering-aims-to-attract-top-students-fund-undergraduate-summer-research/]]></description>
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<title>A Better Way to Track TB</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 13:49:05 -0400</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In March 2011, South Africaâ€™s National Health Laboratory Service was considering replacing the method it uses to diagnose TB from â€œsmear microscopyâ€â€”looking for TB bacilli under a microscope, the way it has been done for nearly a centuryâ€”with a new technology recommended by the World Health Organization. For advice on the costs of such a switch, the service turned to researchers from the Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office (HE2RO), a collaboration between researchers from BUâ€™s Center for Global Health & Development (CGHD) and the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. The technology, called GeneXpert MTB/RIF, had two advantages over existing methodology: it found more TB, and it found it much faster.]]></description>
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