School pupils help discover promising new tuberculosis drug boosters

School pupils helped develop and test promising new compounds that could improve the effectiveness of existing tuberculosis (TB) treatments as part of a unique research project.

The year-long initiative brought together dozens of students from four County Durham schools. 

Supported in part by a grant from The Royal Society, it enabled them to take part in genuine scientific research tackling one of the world's deadliest infectious diseases, TB. 

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