Engineered bacteria to detect gut inflammation – PLoS Blogs (blog)
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Engineered bacteria to detect gut inflammation
PLoS Blogs (blog) Jeff Tabor’s lab’s paper in Molecular Systems Biology uses two component-systems from a Shewanella species to create a thiosulfate sensor and an improved tetrathionate sensor in a probiotic E. coli. Both of these sensors were characterized in a regular … |
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Synthetic “Virus” Dispatched to Kill Bacteria
Controlled Environments Magazine “The way our synthetic virus works means that bacteria are less likely to become resistant to it. They also have an additional advantage over traditional antibiotics in that they don’t have to reach and hit a single target inside a bacterial cell to be … |
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Rockefeller scientists develop system to model Huntington’s in human embryonic stem cells
News-Medical.net With new findings, scientists may be poised to break a long impasse in research on Huntington’s disease, a fatal hereditary disorder for which there is currently no treatment. One in 10,000 Americans suffer from the disease, and most begin to show … |