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2009-09-10 | permalink
Scientists make GE ”sugar bug” drug for bowel disease
A genetically modified bacterium that turns into a drug-delivery vehicle in the presence of a type of sugar may offer a new way to treat bowel disease, British scientists said on Friday. The new approach uses an engineered form of Bacteroides ovatus to deliver a human growth factor called KGF-2 directly to damaged cells in the gut -- but the process is only activated in the presence of xylan, a sugar that is rare in normal diet.
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2009-09-10 | permalink
Scientists make GE ”sugar bug” drug for bowel disease
A genetically modified bacterium that turns into a drug-delivery vehicle in the presence of a type of sugar may offer a new way to treat bowel disease, British scientists said on Friday. The new approach uses an engineered form of Bacteroides ovatus to deliver a human growth factor called KGF-2 directly to damaged cells in the gut -- but the process is only activated in the presence of xylan, a sugar that is rare in normal diet.
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