#Scialog: Microbiome, Neurobiology and Disease collaborators Elaine Hsiao, UCLA, and Amina Schartup, UCSD, have a new paper in Cell Host & Microbe on an engineered human gut bacterium that shows promise in reducing mercury absorption from seafood.
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Engineered Bacterium Could Shield People from Mercury Toxicity
Researchers from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and UCLA announced the creation of an engineered bacterium that has the ability to convert the toxic form of mercury present in seaf...
