bacteria, cancer

Nanoparticle-coated bacteria carry cancer-derived proteins to dendritic cells, enabling the immune system to launch a response in a mouse model.

Microbes designed to produce specific immunomodulatory metabolites could give immunotherapy a boost.

Microbes living inside cancer cells may help them spread to distant sites by enhancing the cells’ resistance to mechanical stress, a study shows.

Because most people are vaccinated against tetanus as children, delivering benign bacteria carrying a tetanus antigen into pancreatic tumors makes them visible to memory cells in the immune system, researchers report.

A growing appreciation of the bacterial assemblages that live within tumors has researchers striving to understand and capitalize on their role.

From diagnosis to tracking treatment responses, bacteria and other microbes in the blood, gut, and tumors of cancer patients may provide helpful hints for improving their care.

Lab studies link the oral bacteria Fusobacterium nucleatum to cancers from the gut to the head and neck. Could targeting the microbe tackle tumors?

A study suggests the potential for a noninvasive diagnostic that could detect tumors early and differentiate between disease types.

Researchers are engineering microbes to deliver therapeutics specifically to tumors, maximizing the treatments’ efficacy while minimizing side effects.

Autonomous, living microrobots that seek and destroy cancer are not as futuristic as one might imagine, thanks to a fusion of robotics and synthetic biology.

Normal hair growth can lead to infection during cancer treatment.

Researchers hacked the genetic machinery of E. coli to make them glow and identify proteins linked to cancer.

Researchers did not observe the same link between a bacterium and human colon cancer that prior investigators had reported.

A molecule produced by a strain of Staphylococcus epidermis interferes with DNA synthesis.

The bacteria also promoted the growth of human colon cancer cells in a dish.