Get infected by bacteria to beat cancer? Might work.
Bacteria Developed To Deliver Cancer-Fighting Drugs Directly to Tumors
"The team has been finetuning the development of non-toxic, genetically engineered strains of Salmonella to target tumors and then control the release of cancer-fighting drugs inside cancer cells. In addition to sparing healthy tissue from damage, this cancer treatment platform is able to deliver orders of magnitude more therapy than the administered dose because the simple-to-manufacture bacteria grow exponentially in tumors.
“We were focusing on how to make this strain really safe and user friendly,” Raman says. “The genetic engineering steps we took made this strain at least 100 times safer than anything that’s been tried in the past.”
According to the article, bacteria are very good at infecting tumors, and once these special bugs are in the system, they go after tumors, where they reproduce, making even more tumor-fighting drugs right inside of it.
Brilliant -- if it works. Trials are set to start in 2027.
What it might look like:
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