{"id":139080,"date":"2022-05-08T14:23:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T19:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/scientists-engineer-a-bacteria-to-produce-a-drug-used-to-treat-parkinsons-disease"},"modified":"2022-05-08T14:23:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T19:23:45","slug":"scientists-engineer-a-bacteria-to-produce-a-drug-used-to-treat-parkinsons-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/scientists-engineer-a-bacteria-to-produce-a-drug-used-to-treat-parkinsons-disease","title":{"rendered":"Scientists engineer a bacteria to produce a drug used to treat Parkinson\u2019s disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8SjxCHqVH1g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The results of the study could lead to new treatment options. In a groundbreaking new study published in the journal Nature on Thursday, researchers have compared the brain cells of patients who had died from either Parkinson\u2019s disease or dementia to people unaffected by the disorders and found which brain cells are responsible for both conditions.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A team of researchers <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/947476\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">has created a bacteria<\/a> that can produce a steady and consistent source of medicine inside a patient\u2019s gut, suggesting the possibility for genetically edited bacteria to be an efficient Parkinson\u2019s disease treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the researchers have shown via preclinical experiments that the novel treatment technique is not only safe and well-tolerated, but it also reduces side effects that can occur when other treatments are utilized.<\/p>\n<p><b>An engineered probiotic<\/b><\/p>\n<p>For long, scientists <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/genetically-engineered-ecoli-bacteria-can-now-power-solar-cells\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-id=\"embedded internal links\" data-type=\"link\" data-url=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/genetically-engineered-ecoli-bacteria-can-now-power-solar-cells\">have been experimenting with ways of engineering bacteria<\/a> to fit our needs for decades. The new research is the latest example of that.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/scientists-engineer-a-bacteria-to-produce-a-drug-used-to-treat-parkinsons-disease\">Continue reading \u201cScientists engineer a bacteria to produce a drug used to treat Parkinson\u2019s disease\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The results of the study could lead to new treatment options. In a groundbreaking new study published in the journal Nature on Thursday, researchers have compared the brain cells of patients who had died from either Parkinson\u2019s disease or dementia to people unaffected by the disorders and found which brain cells are responsible for both [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}