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It’s long past time for the west to start looking seriously into phage therapy, which Russia has been using for decades. Find the virus that targets the bacteria you want gone, and let it do the hard work for you.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy

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last year I read that they have two major innovations in this field: 1. they can use a t4 bacteriophage to deploy an arbitrary genetic payload and 2. they can alter the "hooks" on the t4 to make it attach to a large variety of cells.

together, these discoveries pave the way to much more precise genetic engineering.

It would revolutionize dentistry too! Imagine keeping all your healthy mouth biome and selectively eliminating cavity and gum disease bacteria.

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