Bioengineered Viruses Used to Kill Antibiotic-Resistant Infection

Scientists at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have achieved a world’s first of beating a bacterial infection using an engineered virus. This was done in a 15-year-old girl with cystic fibrosis who had a severe case of Mycobacterium.

The girl received a double lung transplant, but then developed the infection that antibiotics could not ki (Read more...)

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