Article 18B6K When the antibiotics run out, maybe we can use GMO maggots to stave off infection

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

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Cory Doctorow
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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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