[extropy-chat] Genetically modified bacterium as remedy for intestinal diseases

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Genetically modified bacterium as remedy for intestinal diseases: "Researchers from the Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) at Ghent University are joining the fight against chronic intestinal disease with a genetically modified bacterium (Lactococcus lactis). The modified bacterium is able to produce medication right in the intestine. This is often the crux of the problem: a number of medicines are presumed to be effective, but until now it has been impossible to get them into the intestine in a simple manner. The researchers have shown that the genetically modified bacterium is able to manufacture the potential medicine, Trefoil Factors, in the intestines of diseased mice" 
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-09/vfii-gmb091404.php 

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