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New Views of a Cough: From TB to Hope for Parkinson's |
Michael Shiloh had been studying tuberculosis for about two decades when he started wondering about a seemingly basic question: What makes people with TB cough? This is the disease's hallmark symptom and a main mode of transmission, but despite training as an infectious disease physician and many years of probing the pathogen as a researcher, Shiloh realized that he didn't know. A quick search of the literature suggested that "essentially nothing had been studied about it, at least not at the molecular level," he says. |
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