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Jul 15, 2026
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To employ these bacteria in cancer therapies, doctors could inject a patient with dormant spores of an anaerobe. Those spores would travel through the bloodstream and remain inert in healthy oxygenated tissue. (Getty Images/Unsplash)
How we are engineering bacteria to eat cancer
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Modern medicine has made significant advances in cancer treatments over the decades. But all cancer therapies still face one critical challenge: how to target cancers without damaging healthy cells.
Imperfect solutions lead to side-effects: surgery an…
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