Bacteria Engineered to Eat Tumors From the Inside
Scientists have taken an extraordinary step toward a new kind of cancer therapy: engineering bacteria that can invade tumors and destroy them from within. The research, led by scientists at the University of Waterloo, shows how specially modified microbes could become precision tools against cancer. Tumors often contain oxygen-poor environments where traditional treatments like chemotherapy or immune therapies struggle to penetrate. But certain bacteria naturally thrive in exactly those conditions. Researchers took advantage of this by modifying the bacterium Clostridium sporogenes, enabling it to sense when enough bacteria had gathered inside a tumor and then activate a cancer-killing response. The […]
