Genetic engineering: Bacteria could be modified to heal us from inside our cells

Billions of years in the past, micro organism started residing inside different cells and finishing up important features. Genetic engineering might create new forms of these ‘endosymbionts’

By Michael Le Web page

Micro organism have been genetically engineered to enter and reside inside mouse immune cells, the place they launched proteins that altered the behaviour of these cells. The work is a primary step in the direction of creating “synthetic endosymbionts” that might reside inside some human physique cells and do every thing from guiding the regeneration of broken tissues to treating most cancers.

“That’s the imaginative and prescient in the long term,” says Christopher Contag at Michigan State College.

A number of different teams are additionally growing synthetic endosymbionts, which they are saying might permit us …