Engineered microbes turn a bacterium's immune response against itself using CRISPR.
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21 June 2017
This article originally stated that phages engineered by Synthetic Genomics suppressed the human immune system. Instead, the phages are able to hide themselves from the immune system. The story has been corrected to reflect this.
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Reardon, S. Modified viruses deliver death to antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Nature 546, 587–588 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2017.22173
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