when the antibiotics run out, maybe we can use gmo maggots to stave off infection /

Published at 2016-03-26 10:51:41

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NC State University researcher Max Scott and colleagues have engineered a strain of transgenic blueflies whose maggots secrete human growth factor, which they hope to employ to fight infections in patients with non-healing wounds for whom antibiotics accomplish not offer any hope. (more…)

Source: boingboing.net

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