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Diarrhea-causing Salmonella can be weaponized to flush out cancer
A notorious germ best known for getting people rushing to the bathroom may one day have cancer patients headed to clinics for a new treatment instead. With some genetic tweaking, Salmonella typhimurium transformed from a germ that causes mayhem in people’s intestines to one that can infiltrate deep into the bowels of tumors and spark immune system warfare.
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Not the prettiest form of treatment, but then again cancer is an ugly ugly disease. Looking forward to more developments.