Talented bacteria detect cancer, diabetes

Thursday, May 28, 2015 - 06:10 in Health & Medicine

You might want to park at the door any assumptions about bacteria being primitive, inert or yucky. This is a story about genetically engineered forms of bacteria that may someday diagnose cancer by analyzing a urine sample, and that have already shown a knack for recognizing the hallmarks of diabetes...

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