Bugs with Drugs: Repurposing a Pathogenic Bacteria’s Weapon

<p>LabTalk is a special edition podcast produced by The Scientist’s Creative Services Team, where we explore topics at the leading edge of innovative research.</p> <p>This episode is brought to you by Keystone Symposia. Don’t miss their upcoming virtual eSymposia <a href='https://keysym.us/EK41Scientist'>Synthetic Biology: At the Crossroads of Genetic Engineering and Human Therapeutics</a> on May 3-4, 2021.</p> <p>One of the eSymposium’s speakers is Cammie Lesser, an associate professor at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Niki Spahich from The Scientist’s Creative Services team spoke with Lesser about her research developing designer probiotics to deliver protein-based therapeutics to the gut.</p>