A Gulp Of Genetically Modified Bacteria Might Someday Treat A Range Of Illnesses

(By Rob Stein for NPR)

Instead of eating a typical breakfast every day, Jonah Reeder gulps down a special protein shake.

“The nutrients in it like to sit at the bottom, so I usually have to shake it up and get all the nutrients from the protein and everything,” says Reeder, 21, of Farmington, Utah, as he shakes a big plastic bottle.

Reeder was born with a rare genetic disorder called phenylketonuria, or PKU. If he eats meat, drinks milk or consumes other common sources of protein, toxic levels of the amino acid phenylalanine could build up in his body and damage his brain.  Continue reading article here…

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