Antibiotics have long been the go-to treatment for a bacterial stomach bug. The fact that they eliminate harmful bacteria while also disrupting the broader gut microbiome is accepted as a necessary side effect. University of Rhode Island researcher Amanda Alker intends to disprove this by developing targeted microbiome-editing approaches using CRISPR-associated transposons, or CASTs, to
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