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by zmanian 3890 days ago
I think it is simultaneously amazing and scary that the FDA is starting to approve self replicating organisms in therapies. Bacteriophages are a promising replacement for antibiotics. I wonder if they can follow a similar regulatory path.
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Live-virus vaccines are already a thing; in some sense this is just a new application of them as far as the FDA is concerned.