Engineering bacteria to kill cancer cells… Sounds like science fiction, right? Well, it’s actually all science, no fiction! Sreyan Chowdhury and colleagues from Tal Danino’s lab at Columbia University describe this novel therapeutic approach in their recent Nature Medicine publication, “Programmable bacteria induce durable tumor regression and systemic antitumor immunity”.Paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6688650/Review: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6558487/Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnpIIZrjMtM&t=18sTo help us spread science, please consider writing a review, sharing this episode with your friends and colleagues, or donating to support our work (Venmo @Kellen-Cavagnero). Please reach out to us via email ([email protected]) or Twitter (@KellenCavagnero) with any questions, comments, topic suggestions, etc.

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