At a sober living home for veterans in Winnebago, Minnesota, dogs are being introduced to help veterans cope with PTSD and overcome alcohol and drug addiction. The sober living home, named Bravo Zulu House, partnered with K9s for Warriors, a non profit organization that provides trained service dogs to military veterans suffering from PTSD, traumatic…
Read MoreIn a study published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases a newly developed bacteriophage was used to clear a patient’s rare multi-drug resistant infection. The bacteriophage was developed by Denmark’s biotech company SNIPR Biome. Scientists developed the bacteriophage using CRISPR to selectively target Escherichia coli. The phage was used to treat a 65-year old man…
Read MoreA research team from the University of Chicago has developed a strain of gut bacteria that might assist in fighting pancreatic cancer. Ralph Weichselbaum, MD (Chair of Radiation and Cellular Oncology) and his team engineered a strain of Bifidobacterium longum to release a modified form of interleukin-2 – an immune molecule that activates T-cells. B.…
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