This New Cancer Breakthrough Sounds Impossible

Scientists at the University of Waterloo are developing a new tool to battle cancer.

A recent paper published by Sara Sadr, Bahram Zargar, Marc Aucoin and Brian Ingalls in ACS Synthetic Biology describes how the team engineered bacteria, specifically Clostridium sporogenes, to enter solid tumors and eat them from within.

Using bacteria to attack cancer cells is not a new idea, but the Waterloo researchers have engineered a solution to one of the biggest challenges inherent to the method.

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