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New cancer treatment? Scientists have programmed bacteria to kill cancer cells in mice

  • Written by Thomas Williams, Research Fellow in Synthetic Biology, Macquarie University
imageSome bacteria can to survive inside the oxygen-deprived environment of a tumour.from shutterstock.com

Scientists are successfully experimenting with a creative approach to treat cancer by genetically programming bacteria to invade tumours and destroy cells from within.

In a study published this week in the journal Nature, authors showed programmed...

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