Harnessing systems and synthetic biology to battle bacterial infections
• By Deborah Erickson
EnBiotix Inc. is focused on two anti-infective platforms: one an approach to revitalizing existing antibiotics, and the second a means of empowering phages, viruses that are natural enemies of bacteria. There is successful scientific precedence for both platforms, which stand to get a boost from network biology.
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