Designer Cells as MRSA Assassins / Cell, July 12 , 2018 (Vol. 174, Issue 2)

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A cell-based therapy is developed by Fussenegger and colleagues that executes a synthetic gene circuit to sense and respond to MRSA infection as a means to combat medical-implant-associated infections. Check out the paper at: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(18)30651-2.

Y. Liu, P. Bai, A.-K. Woischnig, G. Charpin-El Hamri, H. Ye, M. Folcher, M. Xie, N. Khanna, and M. Fussenegger. (2018). Immunomimetic Designer Cells Protect Mice from MRSA Infection. Cell 174.

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