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Techniques: Probiotic Escherichia coli for urine-based diagnosis of liver tumors

July 30, 2015 7:00 AM UTC

An engineered strain of probiotic E. coli could enable urine-based diagnosis of primary liver tumors and liver metastases. A probiotic strain of E. coli was engineered to express a reporter enzyme tha...