Researchers Ram Sagar Misra, Shailja Singh and Anand Ranganathan NEW DELHI: Over the years, tuberculosis and malaria have developed resistance to most drugs, including antibiotics. That has been because most drug research focuses on targeting the pathogen — the TB bacteria or malaria parasite. Now, 22 researchers from JNU and BHU have shifted focus to the host cells which are infected and isolated a molecule that can help counter drug-resistant TB and malaria. What they have done is use the pathogens’ defence mechanisms against itself. “Intracellular pathogens hijack essential host int...