The experiment should have been an exercise in futility. Bioengineer Eijiro Miyako had isolated two species of bacteria, one of which sometimes colonizes tumorous tissues, and used them in an attempt ...

Researchers are engineering bacteria to invade tumors and consume them from the inside. Because tumor cores lack oxygen, they ...

Cancer treatments such as surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation have saved many lives, but they also have limits and side ...

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Scientists have uncovered an elegant biophysical trick that tuberculosis-causing bacteria use to survive inside human cells, ...

Growing research suggests the bacteria left behind by the common childhood infection may trick the immune system into ...