Living medicine for treating liver-brain dysfunction-1 (IMAGE)

National University of Singapore

Living medicine for treating liver-brain dysfunction-1

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(from left) Associate Professor Jonathan Lee, Professor Matthew Chang, and Dr Nikhil Aggarwal from the National University of Singapore have successfully engineered a naturally occurring beneficial gut bacterium into a programmable “living medicine” to treat hepatic encephalopathy, a severe brain dysfunction linked to liver failure.

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