An engineered gut microbe can detoxify methylmercury, reducing the amount that passes into the brain and developing fetuses ...

Researchers from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and UCLA announced the creation of an engineered ...

Key takeawaysUCLA and UCSD scientists inserted DNA-encoding methylmercury detoxification enzymes into the genome of an ...

Researchers at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and UCLA claim to have engineered a probiotic bacterium ...

Key takeaways· UCLA and UCSD scientists inserted DNA-encoding methylmercury detoxification enzymes into the genome of an abundant human gut bacterium ...