Pedro Belda Ferre

A capsule with a genetically engineered bacterium for therapeutic purposes. abrakadabra / Shutterstock.com

Living drugs: Engineering bacteria to treat genetic diseases

Researchers are exploring the possibility of creating living drugs – designer microbes that can live in our guts and provide critical components that our body needs but can’t make itself.

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