Genetically engineered bacteria could heal us from inside our cells

By Michael Le Page

Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of Bacillus subtilis

STEVE LOWRY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

Bacteria person been genetically engineered to participate and unrecorded wrong rodent immune cells, wherever they released proteins that altered the behaviour of those cells. The enactment is simply a archetypal measurement towards creating “artificial endosymbionts” that could unrecorded wrong immoderate quality assemblage cells and bash everything from guiding the regeneration of damaged tissues to treating cancer.

“That’s the imaginativeness successful the agelong run,” says Christopher Contag astatine Michigan State University.

Several different groups are besides processing artificial endosymbionts, which they accidental could let america …

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