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This year’s iGEM team of the Eindhoven University of Technology focuses on a fundamental problem in the application of genetically modified bacteria inside the human body – the immune system. Locally bacterial produced drugs are a promising future in the field of medical treatments. However, this local drug release and production requires bacterial life forms inside the human body and these bacteria can cause immune responses. This natural immune system can be evaded with the use of two methods: suppression of the entire immune system or modifying the used bacteria in order to minimise the immune systems’ response. Due to the devastating impact of the first possibility, iGEM 2014 team Eindhoven decided to proceed with the second option. | This year’s iGEM team of the Eindhoven University of Technology focuses on a fundamental problem in the application of genetically modified bacteria inside the human body – the immune system. Locally bacterial produced drugs are a promising future in the field of medical treatments. However, this local drug release and production requires bacterial life forms inside the human body and these bacteria can cause immune responses. This natural immune system can be evaded with the use of two methods: suppression of the entire immune system or modifying the used bacteria in order to minimise the immune systems’ response. Due to the devastating impact of the first possibility, iGEM 2014 team Eindhoven decided to proceed with the second option. | ||
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This year’s iGEM team of the Eindhoven University of Technology focuses on a fundamental problem in the application of genetically modified bacteria inside the human body – the immune system. Locally bacterial produced drugs are a promising future in the field of medical treatments. However, this local drug release and production requires bacterial life forms inside the human body and these bacteria can cause immune responses. This natural immune system can be evaded with the use of two methods: suppression of the entire immune system or modifying the used bacteria in order to minimise the immune systems’ response. Due to the devastating impact of the first possibility, iGEM 2014 team Eindhoven decided to proceed with the second option.
