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Africa: GM Bacteria Could Help Mass Produce Hookworm Drugs
August 23, 2013 Editor 0
[SciDev.Net]São Paulo -Researchers have produced a protein that kills parasitic intestinal worms, by genetically engineering a bacterium similar to those used in probiotics – raising hopes of more effective and safer therapies for infections that affect up to two billion people worldwide.
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