The salmonella bacteria can infiltrate tumours and flag the cancer cells up to the body’s immune defences, making them a target for attack.
Cancers have evolved ways of evading the immune system and are often left alone because they are not seen as “foreign”.
The salmonella strain engineered by the South Korean researchers is a million times less potent than the version of the bug that causes food poisoning.
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