Tuberculosis (TB) is the number one cause of human death due to an infectious disease.
The causative agents of TB are a group of closely related bacteria known as the …

Seminal microbiological work of environmental nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM)
includes the discovery that NTM inhabit water distribution systems and soil, and that the …

Tuberculosis has affected humankind for thousands of years, but a deeper understanding of
its cause and transmission only arose after Robert Koch discovered Mycobacterium …

According to current evidence, Homo sapiens was unable to survive on a diet of raw wild
foods. Because cooked diets have large physiological and behavioral consequences, a …

The reality of climate change and biodiversity collapse is irrefutable in the 21st century, with
urgent action required not only to conserve threatened species but also to protect human life …

Introduction microorganisms and macrohistory one of the chief blessings of living in the
modern world is supposed to be that the risk of dying from an infectious disease has become …

Pathogenic mycobacteria pose a sustained threat to global human health. Recently,
cytochrome bcc complexes have gained interest as targets for antibiotic drug development …

Abstract The Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex (MTBC) consists of a clonal group of
several mycobacterial lineages pathogenic to a range of different mammalian hosts. In this …

A large body of work focuses on the unique aspects of Neanderthal anatomy, inferred
physiology, and behavior to test the assumption that Neanderthals were hyper‐adapted to …

Global exposures to air pollution and cigarette smoke are novel in human evolutionary
history and are associated with at least 12 million premature deaths per year. We investigate …