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Scientists turn hookworms into living pharmacies that can deliver medicine from inside humans

In a groundbreaking new study, researchers modified a human hookworm and got it to manufacture and secrete functional human ...

Genetically modified hookworms produce and deliver therapeutics

Hookworms, intestinal parasites that infect hundreds of millions of people in under-resourced tropical regions around the ...
Healthcare in Europe

Bioengineered hookworms could serve as drug factories inside the gut

Hookworms, intestinal parasites that infect hundreds of millions of people in under-resourced tropical regions around the ...
News Medical

Harnessing the genetics of hookworms to develop next generation of PPE for combat troops

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have received a grant to develop the next generation of personal protective equipment (PPE) for combat troops. Harnessing the ...