BBC News - Soil bacterium helps kill cancers
A bacterium found in soil is a showing promise as a way of delivering cancer drugs into tumours.
UK and Dutch scientists have been able to genetically engineer an enzyme into the bacteria to activate a cancer drug.
Researchers have been investigating the possibilities of clostridium "vectors" to deliver cancer drugs for decades.
The scientists from the University of Nottingham and Maastricht University were able to genetically engineer an improved version of an enzyme into C.sporogenes.
(Professor Nigel Minton University of Nottingham).
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