[gog-ma-gog]

*in mice

[TallGuyShort]

The "programmable bacteria" concept seems a bit more general than the typical treatments that work in a petri dish / mice before flopping on humans. At the very least it's more novel.

[dannykwells]

It's not that novel

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16330045

[ktaylora]

* and probably humans, but we couldn't get approval for that yet... maybe now that we're in Nature Medicine?

[savant_penguin]

The human quest to make mice immortal continues

[dannykwells]

Yeah. People have been trying to do this forever and it's never been clinically relevant.