I’ve read about how bacteria and micro-organisms have been genetically altered to fight disease. For example insulin is produced by bacteria that is altered to generate insulin. Viruses have been also genetically altered to inject dna code to liver cells in hopes of getting liver cell to turn into insulin producing betacells. Research like about seems farfetched yet almost all insulin produced
today is from modified bacteria.
What research has been done to this effect – not just in attempts to cure diabetes? Could viruses modified to attack cancer cell for example? A few years back there was cases with “flesh eating” bacteria (and got a lot of hysteric press coverage). Could similar organism be “programmed” to “eat” cancer cells etc.? I’ve also read about using phages to this effect. What happened to that?
Should a virus be made to attack cancer cells they would then be destroyed by normal immunesystem.
How about using something like above for diagnostic tools. A bacteria would emit something detectable if it gets into contact with cancer cells. The “something” would then be detected with current diagnostic tools.
