by S. Mar­vin Fried­man — Tu­ber­cu­lo­sis is an an­cient dis­ease that still af­fects mil­lions of peo­ple, largely in de­vel­op­ing coun­tries. A star­tling sta­tis­tic val­ued by fundrais­ers for tu­ber­cu­lo­sis re­search is that this dev­as­tat­ing dis­ease claims three lives every minute world­wide. Since a ma­jor fac­tor un­der­ly­ing this im­por­tant health threat is the alarm­ing rate at which drug-re­sis­tant…