Engineers program E. coli to destroy cancer cells
Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - 13:41
in Health & Medicine
Researchers at MIT and the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) have recruited some new soldiers in the fight against cancer — bacteria. In a study appearing in the July 20 of Nature, the scientists programmed harmless strains of bacteria to deliver toxic payloads. When deployed together with a traditional cancer drug, the bacteria […]