But when his research on diet-related obesity and cancer resulted in an accidental crop of balding mice, the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine immunologist knew he had to investigate. In a ...

Scientists inserted DNA-encoding methylmercury detoxification enzymes into the genome of an abundant human gut bacterium. The engineered bacterium detoxified methylmercury in the gut of mice and ...

Researchers at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and UCLA claim to have engineered a probiotic bacterium ...