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March 26, 2016 12:51 am PDT

When the antibiotics run out, maybe we can use GMO maggots to stave off infection

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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 use to fight infections in patients with non-healing wounds for whom antibiotics do not offer any hope. (more…)


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