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Engineered yeast probiotic developed to treat inflammatory bowel disease

The world of microbes living in the human gut can have far-reaching effects on human health. Multiple diseases, including inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), are tied to the balance of these microbes, suggesting that restoring the right balance could help treat disease. Many probiotics—living yeasts or bacteria—that are currently on the market have been optimized through […]

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Using genetically engineered T cells to fight pancreatic cancer

A large international team of researchers has conducted genetic engineering on T cells as a way to combat pancreatic cancer. In their paper published in the journal Nature Biomedical Engineering, the group describes engineering certain kinds of T cells and how well the approach worked when tested under laboratory conditions. Pancreatic cancer is one of […]