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Rice University: Engineered Organism Could Diagnose Crohn's Disease Flareups
May 18, 2021
HOUSTON, Texas, May 18 (TNSJou) -- Rice University issued the following news release:

In an important step toward the clinical application of synthetic biology, Rice University researchers have engineered a bacterium with the necessary capabilities for diagnosing a human disease.

The engineered strain of the gut bacteria E. coli senses pH and glows when it encounters acidosis, an acidic condition that often occurs during flareups of inflammatory bowel diseases like coli . . .

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