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🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Canadian scientists just engineered "tumor-eating" bacteria that devour cancer from the inside. We’re talking about a living treatment that colonizes tumors and eats them for lunch....
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Canadian scientists at the University of Waterloo engineered bacteria (Clostridium sporogenes) that can colonize and consume tumors from the inside by exploiting the oxygen-free environment at tumor centers. They used synthetic biology to add oxygen-tolerance genes controlled by a biological switch that only activates when bacteria reach sufficient population density within tumors, creating a programmable living cancer treatment.
Sep 23, 2026
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