{"id":155653,"date":"2026-04-11T16:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T23:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=155653"},"modified":"2026-04-11T16:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T23:22:13","slug":"johns-hopkins-team-develops-therapeutic-nasally-delivered-dna-vaccine-for-tuberculosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2026\/04\/11\/johns-hopkins-team-develops-therapeutic-nasally-delivered-dna-vaccine-for-tuberculosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Johns Hopkins Team Develops Therapeutic, Nasally-Delivered DNA Vaccine for Tuberculosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy GoodNewsNetwork<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>A research team at Johns Hopkins Medicine is developing a nose-delivered inoculation against tuberculosis, the world\u2019s leading cause of death from infectious disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The approach fuses two tuberculosis genes with the goal of directing the immune system to fight drug-tolerant bacterial survivors that can endure antibiotic treatment to spread another day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The paper on the vaccine&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jci.org\/articles\/view\/196648\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">was published last week<\/a>&nbsp;in the Journal of Clinical Investigation,&nbsp; where JH Medicine researchers were joined by colleagues from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/johns-hopkins-team-develops-therapeutic-nasally-delivered-dna-vaccine-for-tuberculosis\/\">Johns Hopkins Team Develops Therapeutic, Nasally-Delivered DNA Vaccine for Tuberculosis<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy GoodNewsNetwork A research team at Johns Hopkins Medicine is developing a nose-delivered inoculation against tuberculosis, the world\u2019s leading cause of death from infectious disease. The approach fuses two tuberculosis genes with the goal of directing the immune system to fight drug-tolerant bacterial survivors that can endure antibiotic treatment to spread another day. The paper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155654,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155653\/revisions\/155654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}