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*in mice

• TallGuyShort 7y ago
  The "programmable bacteria" concept seems a bit more general than the typical treatments that work in a petri dish / mice before flopping on humans. At the very least it's more novel.
  • dannykwells 7y ago
    It's not that novel https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16330045 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16330045
• ktaylora 7y ago
  * and probably humans, but we couldn't get approval for that yet... maybe now that we're in Nature Medicine?
• dannykwells 7y ago
  Yeah. People have been trying to do this forever and it's never been clinically relevant.
• savant_penguin 7y ago
  The human quest to make mice immortal continues