Despite sounding like something you might think up in the concluding days of NaNoWriMo , bacterial airship could bethe next generation of disease fighter . Rather than create a drug in a lab to be used as music , this newfangled inquiry propose a way of repurposing bacteria as onrush blimp against diseases . The bacteria are engineer to impart targeting , perception and shift capabilities , as well as the ability to drop their medicinal drug cargo .
The research worker ’ proof of concept was an E. coli bacterium that could home in on septic intestinal cells , produce drugs to fight the other bacteria , and release signaling molecules to prevent an infection from forming or triggering the dead body ’s immune response . You swallow the dirigibles in a pill , or get a shot , and the bacterium zooms through your body seeking out and destroying disease .
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