The Living Pharmacy

When your medicine has a life of its own, who’s hosting whom?

Researchers gave bacteria a job, watched them do it, and watched them leave over time when dosing stopped. The job was happening inside a living gut. The exit was part of the therapeutic claim. In a Cell paper published in April 2026, scientists modified strains of Lactobacillus plantarum for hepatic encephalopathy, a condition where a failing liver tur…