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Genomic and transcriptomic analysis of the streptomycin-dependent Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain 18b

Stewart Cole, Claudia Sala, Andrej Benjak, Ming Zhang, Jérémie Piton, Swapna Uplekar

Background: The ability of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to establish a latent infection (LTBI) in humans confounds the treatment of tuberculosis. Consequently, there is a need to discover new therapeutic agents that can kill M. tuberculosis both during activ ...

BioMed Central2016

Hutongs-Transformations: A Battle between memories

Anna Pagani

Basing the analysis on social studies, on the history of a nation and its urban landscape, as well as on the connection between anthropology and architecture, the main aim of this book is to partially unveil the different roles that memories have had and s ...

2015

La grande traversée de la rade de Genève (GE)

Genève est la plus petite des grandes capitales grâce au nombre d’institutions internationales qu’elle abrite, ainsi que par son positionnement sur la scène mondiale. La qualifier de capitale l’élève au rang des grandes villes du monde. Lorsque l’on regard ...

2013

Practicing the world, practicing the city - Urban explorations in Beijing

Béatrice Ferrari

Since the beginning of the reforms three decades ago, Beijing has progressively become more urban and more global. With the economic reforms and the gaige kaifang (the opening of the country), the city has been steadily growing in both size and population ...

2010

Public space in Beijing

Béatrice Ferrari

This is a short exploration of public space in Beijing (and elsewhere). But how do we define public space and does it exist as such in Beijing? In this short presentation, instead of simply focusing on physical spaces, I will try to capture some of the ele ...

2010

Mapping rhythms in Beijing: Looking for urban quality in daily practices

Béatrice Ferrari

Urban quality has become a pervasive concern not only in China but also in most contemporary cities. Yet before considering how urban planning could be done in order to achieve quality, it is necessary to question how this concept is defined and measured. ...

2010

Massive Gene Duplication Event among Clinical Isolates of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis W/Beijing Family

Gaëlle Séraphine Kolly

As part of our effort to uncover the molecular basis for the phenotypic variation among clinical Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates, we have previously reported that isolates belonging to the W/Beijing lineage constitutively overexpress the DosR-regulated ...

2010

Genetic characterization of the DosR regulon In Mycobacterium tuberculosis W/Beijing strains

The exact role of the DosR "dormancy" regulon in the pathogenesis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is still unclear. It has been observed that members of the regulon, including dosR, are constitutively expressed in clinical isolates belonging to the W/Beijing ...

2009

RemKoolhaas / OMA. The Construction of Merveilles

Roberto Gargiani

Creator of buildings that stand out as surrealistic merveilles along the skylines of America, Europe and Asia ; author of Delirious NewYork, the book that has revolutionized the reading of the contemporary metropolis ; leader of the current generation of a ...

Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes2008

A new evolutionary scenario for the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex

Stewart Cole

The distribution of 20 variable regions resulting from insertion-deletion events in the genomes of the tubercle bacilli has been evaluated in a total of 100 strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Mycobacterium africanum, Mycobacterium canettii, Mycobacteri ...

2002

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