Chemists recruit anthrax to deliver cancer drugs

Thursday, September 25, 2014 - 05:40 in Health & Medicine

Bacillus anthracis bacteria have very efficient machinery for injecting toxic proteins into cells, leading to the potentially deadly infection known as anthrax. A team of MIT researchers has now hijacked that delivery system for a different purpose: administering cancer drugs.

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