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Researchers at the University of Waterloo have engineered bacteria that naturally thrive without oxygen to invade and consume cancer tumors from their oxygen-starved cores. The breakthrough includes a safety switch that only activates the bacteria's survival mechanism when enough have gathered inside the tumor, preventing them from spreading to healthy tissue.
Canadian researchers have created bacteria that eat cancer from the inside out, using genetic engineering to solve a problem that stumped scientists for decades. The breakthrough could offer a highly targeted way to destroy solid tumors without harming healthy tissue.
Scientists at Baylor University have transformed a common food-borne bacteria into a powerful weapon against colorectal cancer, using modified Listeria to deliver cancer-killing toxins directly into tumor cells. The breakthrough could eventually lead to an oral cancer treatment.