PART II : BREAKTHROUGHS IN TUMOR - SEEKING BACTERIA Newly engineered bacterial strains propel an immune - mediated cancer therapy toward clinical applications
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In the fight against cancer, researchers have recruited an unlikely ally—a strain of Salmonella that causes food poisoning. Previously, scientists attempting to hijack this pathogen in order to target cancer struggled to balance its aggressive therapeutic actions and its harmful attacks on healthy body systems. Now, a team at the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research in Braunschweig, Germany proposed a more precise way to attenuate and strengthen this tumorfighting technique.
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