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Bacteria as cancer hunters?
Public Domain by Cecil Fox (National Cancer Institute)
Researchers have designed a variant of the Escherichia coli bacteria, called EcN (Escherichia coli Nissle 1917), in a way that they produce romidepsin, an anticancer agent. In experiments with mice, EcN accumulated inside tumours and released there the romidepsin, delivering this way the drug in a targeted way. More research is needed before this can be tested on humans.
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