Cancer-fighting bacteria: how engineered microbes could “eat” tumors from the inside out

Cancer-fighting bacteria: how engineered microbes could “eat” tumors from the inside out

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Cancer treatment has no shortage of big ideas, but this one has a certain dark charm: send in bacteria that thrive where healthy human cells struggle, then let them chew through a tumor’s interior. A research team led by the University of Waterloo is working on a therapy concept that uses engineered bacteria to infiltrate solid tumors and consume them from the inside out. The organism at the center of the pro…