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Programmable bacteria induce durable tumor regression and antitumor immunity

• gog-ma-gog 7y ago
  *in mice
  • TallGuyShort 7y ago
    The "programmable bacteria" concept seems a bit more general than the typical treatments that work in a petri dish / mice before flopping on humans. At the very least it's more novel.
    • dannykwells 7y ago
      It's not that novel https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16330045 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16330045
  • ktaylora 7y ago
    * and probably humans, but we couldn't get approval for that yet... maybe now that we're in Nature Medicine?
  • dannykwells 7y ago
    Yeah. People have been trying to do this forever and it's never been clinically relevant.
  • savant_penguin 7y ago
    The human quest to make mice immortal continues
• dang 7y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20350554 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20350554
• aszantu 7y ago
  upcomming next: human triels - kill ethnicity u don't like with aggressive contagious form of cancer