Engineering bacteria to kill cancer cells… Sounds like science fiction, right? Well, it’s actually all science, no fiction! Sreyan Chowdhury and colleagues from Tal Danino’s lab at Columbia University describe this novel therapeutic approach in their recent Nature Medicine publication, “Programmable bacteria induce durable tumor regression and systemic antitumor immunity”.

Paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6688650/

Review: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6558487/

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnpIIZrjMtM&t=18s

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