Some scum! Microbe in pond scum enlisted in new cancer test
Sunday, March 25, 2012 - 18:00
in Health & Medicine
Scientists are enlisting the living, self-propelled microbes found in pond scum -- the pea-green surface slicks that form on ponds -- in the development of a long-awaited new test to detect the cells that spread cancer through the bloodstream from the original tumor to new sites in the body.