{"id":28173,"date":"2016-07-21T14:18:24","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T21:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/engineers-program-e-coli-to-destroy-tumor-cells"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:31:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:31:54","slug":"engineers-program-e-coli-to-destroy-tumor-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/engineers-program-e-coli-to-destroy-tumor-cells","title":{"rendered":"Engineers program E. coli to destroy tumor cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineers-program-e-coli-to-destroy-tumor-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like Botox; another bacteria found a new usage in healthcare.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researchers at MIT and the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) have recruited some new soldiers in the fight against cancer\u2014bacteria.<\/p>\n<p>In a study appearing in the July 20 of <i>Nature<\/i>, the scientists programmed harmless strains of bacteria to deliver toxic payloads. When deployed together with a traditional cancer drug, the bacteria shrank aggressive liver tumors in mice much more effectively than either treatment alone.<\/p>\n<p>The new approach exploits bacteria\u2019s natural tendency to accumulate at disease sites. Certain strains of bacteria thrive in low-oxygen environments such as tumors, and suppression of the host\u2019s immune system also creates favorable conditions for bacteria to flourish.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2016-07-coli-tumor-cells.html\">http:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2016&#45;07-coli-tumor-cells.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like Botox; another bacteria found a new usage in healthcare. Researchers at MIT and the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) have recruited some new soldiers in the fight against cancer\u2014bacteria. In a study appearing in the July 20 of Nature, the scientists programmed harmless strains of bacteria to deliver toxic payloads. When deployed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66824,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28173\/revisions\/66824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}