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Commensal bacteria ‘vaccine’ may safely prep immune cells for meningitis-causing cousin

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Researchers have produced vaccine-like immune responses to a dangerous bacterium by colonizing 26 healthy volunteers with a related, but harmless, commensal bacterial species.

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New Research Shows IBS Symptoms May be Caused by Gut Infections

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Researchers at KU Leuven in Belgium have found a potential mechanism underlying irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) that involves activation of immune cells primed by past gastrointestinal infections. However, IBS patients do not have allergies to any given foods, nor any gastrointestinal conditions, such as celiac disease.

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Symvivo’s Oral COVID-19 Vaccine Enters Clinical Trials

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Related: Red Meat Allergy Test Gets FDA Clearance. “We Symvivo’s bacTRL Gene Therapy Platform is designed and optimized to address limitations associated with typical vaccines, including the inability to accommodate large or multiple genes, lack of specificity to targeted tissue and poor control over immune response, says the company.