Designer probiotics for the prevention and treatment of human diseases.

Designer probiotics for the prevention and treatment of human diseases.
Curr Opin Chem Biol. 2017 May 04;40:8-16
Authors: Chua KJ, Kwok WC, Aggarwal N, Sun T, Chang MW
Abstract
Various studies have shown the beneficial effects of probiotics in humans. The use of synthetic biology to engineer programmable probiotics that specifically targets cancer, infectious agents, or other metabolic diseases has gained much interest since the last decade. Developments made in synthetic probiotics as therapeutics within the last three years will be discussed in this review.
PMID: 28478369 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Current Opinion in Chemical Biology - May 4, 2017 Category: Biochemistry Authors: Chua KJ, Kwok WC, Aggarwal N, Sun T, Chang MW Tags: Curr Opin Chem Biol Source Type: research