Or us??
Except - I'm not too sure about developing a bacteria that eats sugar. I mean what happens if it gets out into the wider world and starts munching on things we don't want it to...like our food reserves?
A sugar solution is typical in breeding bacteria. That getting out effect can be close to zero if the hybrid is genetically modified in a way that it is able to live solely on a specially prepared food solution, difficult to be found outside.
You lose weight and become healthier.
Or us??
So you’re giving up beer?
I see so you spend much time munching down on some switch grass or wood trimmings? These bacteria are being engineer to secrete the hemicellulas enzyme to hydrolysis hemicellulose to 5 carbon sugars and cellulose to glucose. Humans cannot eat cellulose or hemicellulose only rumens with their symbiotic intestinal floral can process cellulitic materials. The E.coli genera is huge not just human gut bugs but a vast group of aerobic and anaerobic microbes these are certainly anaerobic heterotrophs, and would not survive for even a few minutes exposed to the O2 levels in air. The holy grail here is to take a non food waste product aka lignocellulitic materials and convert them directly to linear hydrocarbons with drop in use as fuel, the nice part is that E.coli protein structure is such that one sterilized the waste could be used to feed monogastics think Sus scrofa domesticus and Gallus gallus domesticus there is another group of reshearches attempting to put these genes for alkenes into nitrogen fixing cyanobacteria being autotrophs just add sun, air and water instant growable diesel.