The OpenHelix Blog

I’ve always had a thing for infectious diseases.  I mean: not me personally getting them.  But the fascinating arms race from the smallest biological elements to larger parasites — man, the tricks and strategies are really just amazing to me.  In fact, as an undergrad I was really attracted to the study of infectious disease as a career.  But an advisor talked me out of it.  Eh, who knows — I might have ended up in the same place ultimately.

Anyway, since this isn’t an infectious disease blog and the paper I wanted to talk about touches on a whole other area that interests me (genetically engineered plants), I was granted the opportunity to guest post on a cool paper I found and you check that out over at Biofortified. 

What if Bt saved human lives? if you are so inclined.  It’s about this article:

Hu Y, Georghiou SB, Kelleher AJ, Aroian RV, 2010 Bacillus thuringiensis Cry5B Protein Is Highly Efficacious as a Single-Dose Therapy against an Intestinal Roundworm Infection in Mice. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 4(3): e614. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0000614