#SCIENCE
Study shows CRISPR effectiveness against colitis pathogen:
Research at North Carolina State University shows that the CRISPR-Cas system can be used to effectively target and eliminate specific gut bacteria, in this case Clostridioides difficile, the pathogen that causes colitis (a chronic, degenerative disease of the colon).
"We need to target the precise pathogen without disturbing the rest of the microbiome, and that's what this approach does".
"This was a positive first step in a long process, the results of using phages to deliver CRISPR payloads open up new avenues for other infectious diseases and beyond."
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