<p>Jim Collins, Ewen Cameron, and Peter Belenky of Boston University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute in the U.S. plan to engineer the probiotic bacterium Lactobacillus gasseri to detect and kill Vibrio cholerae in the human intestine. The probiotic could be supplied as an inexpensive lyophilized powder to endemic populations to prevent cholera.</p>


Jim Collins, Ewen Cameron, and Peter Belenky of Boston University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute in the U.S. plan to engineer the probiotic bacterium Lactobacillus gasseri to detect and kill Vibrio cholerae in the human intestine. The probiotic could be supplied as an inexpensive lyophilized powder to endemic populations to prevent cholera.