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Review
. 2017 Oct:40:8-16.
doi: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2017.04.011. Epub 2017 May 4.

Designer probiotics for the prevention and treatment of human diseases

Koon Jiew Chua  1 , Wee Chiew Kwok  1 , Nikhil Aggarwal  1 , Tao Sun  1 , Matthew Wook Chang  2
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Review

Designer probiotics for the prevention and treatment of human diseases

Koon Jiew Chua et al. Curr Opin Chem Biol. 2017 Oct.

Abstract

Various studies have shown the beneficial effects of probiotics in humans. The use of synthetic biology to engineer programmable probiotics that specifically targets cancer, infectious agents, or other metabolic diseases has gained much interest since the last decade. Developments made in synthetic probiotics as therapeutics within the last three years will be discussed in this review.

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