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Remote control designer probiotics

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Zhang and colleagues demonstrate the potential for disease monitoring and therapeutic delivery in the gut by interfacing engineered smart probiotics with a pill-camera-style endoscope.

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Fig. 1: Interfacing orally delivered ‘smart’ probiotics with an optoelectronic capsule endoscope for disease diagnosis and therapy.

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  1. Department of Infectious Disease, Imperial College London, London, UK

    David Carreño & David T. Riglar

  2. The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK

    David Carreño & David T. Riglar

  3. Imperial Centre for Engineering Biology, Imperial College London, London, UK

    David T. Riglar

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Carreño, D., Riglar, D.T. Remote control designer probiotics. Nat Microbiol 10, 1795–1797 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-025-02072-x

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