Breakthrough Study for acne treatment: A research by International research led by the Translational Synthetic Biology Laboratory of the Department of Medicine and Life Sciences (MELIS) at Pompeu Fabra University shows that engineered skin bacteria can help in treating skin acne.
The current treatment includes the use of antibiotics that kill bacteria living in follicles, however, it can cause side effects such as breaking skin microbiome homeostasis.
on 9th January, the findings of the study were published in Nature Biotechnology, which indicates that scientists successfully modified the genome of Cutibacterium acnes t
The results of the study, published today (January 9) in Nature Biotechnology, show that researchers have successfully edited the genome of Cutibacterium acnes to secrete and produce NGAL protein known to be a mediator of the acne drug, isotretinoin, which has been shown to reduce sebum by inducing the death of sebocytes.
The research will continue under European project ‘SkinDev’ that will engineer the microbiome to detect and treat inflammation in the skin.
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