Designer Microbiome: MIT Biologists Program Common Gut Bacteria

July 9, 2015

(Los Angeles Times) – esearchers are still studying exactly how the microbiome — the billions of bacteria and other tiny critters that inhabit our bodies — impacts human health. But while they get on with that, engineers are assembling a tool kit that could build designer microbes: specially tailored bacteria that doctors could introduce into the microbiome to diagnose, monitor or even treat disease.