Dr. Peter Gwynne talks about his use of metabolic mapping to identify unique vulnerabilities of Lyme disease and how he …
CIMAR Lecture: Developing narrow spectrum antibiotics for Lyme
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Hitchin’ a Ride: Exploiting the Tick-Bacteria Interface
James Phelan is a scientist at the Tufts Lyme Disease Initiative working to find ways of reducing the numbers of Lyme-ca…
How Lyme Hides: Subverting the immune system for survival
People catch Lyme disease from ticks, who in turn get the bacteria from wild mice. But why don’t mice get the same dis…
Feed Me: Hijacking the Lyme bacteria’s nutritional requirements
Borrelia burgdorferi has a very small genome. It is about ¼ the size of the genome for Escherichia coli (a common ba…