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Living drugs: Engineering bacteria to treat genetic diseases

  • Written by Pedro Belda Ferre, Postdoctoral Scholar in Pediatrics, University of California San Diego
A capsule with a genetically engineered bacterium for therapeutic purposes.abrakadabra / Shutterstock.com

A pill containing millions of bacteria ready to colonize your gut might be a nightmare to many. But it may become an effective new tool for fighting disease.

In many inherited genetic diseases a mutated gene means that an individual cannot make...

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