How we’re engineering bacteria to eat cancer Scientists are using soil to create microscopic assassins that hunt down cancerous tumours. Health Just now
This control system, called quorum sensing, ensures that the engineered oxygen tolerance is only “turned on” when bacterial cells have found a tumour and have grown to a threshold population density.
Together with colleagues Bahram Zargar, CEO & Co-Founder of CREM Co Labs, and Sara Sadr, both alumni of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Waterloo, we recently published research, that investigates the cancer-fighting potential of the bacterium Clostridium sporogenes.
The synthetic biology toolbox can be used to construct variants of anaerobic bacteria that can be more effective tumour suppressors than their native cousins.
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