HOOKWORMS DELIVER MEDICINE

Researchers at Washington University in St Louis are using hookworms to deliver medicine. Their study was published in Nature Communications and was funded by the U.S. Department of Defense to develop a treatment for tetrodotoxin. The senior author of this study is Makedonka Mitreva. Using CRISPR the researchers inserted a s16-HuScFv antibody into the gene…

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PROJECT TO FIGHT URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS USING VIRUSES GETS E.U. GRANT

The REPhRAME project has been awarded €15 million through the European research and innovation program Horizon Europe to combat recurrent urinary tract infections using viruses. The project is in partnership with multiple universities and medical centers across Europe. Professor Dr. Maria J.G.T. Vehreschild, Head of Infectious Diseases at Universitätsmedizin Frankfurt is the overall coordinator of…

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