Bacteria Bioengineered to Express Healing Chemokine Demonstrates Promise for MDR Wound Infections

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In the natural world there is an unwritten rule: living beings must heal their wounds quickly if they intend to survive. Here opens an immense range of evolutionary capacities that help animals, plants and fungi to meet that condition. There are unique mechanisms, such as that of the Mexican ajolote, an amphibian who is able to, within weeks, regenerate complete limbs — bone, muscle, nerves — after losing them. There is also the willow, a tree t…