14 DAY TRIAL // While some brainiacs are busy trying to build so-called DNA cages and use them to facilitate drug delivery, scientists in the UK are working on engineering bacteria that are ready and willing to fight cancerous tumors.
The idea behind this little project is pretty straightforward: one takes a strain of bacteria belonging to the clostridium family, toys with its DNA, and then sets it loose into a cancer patient's body.
Courtesy of its new genetic makeup, the engineered bacteria would release an enzyme that would help fight cancer by making tumors more vulnerable to cancer drugs.
Truth be told, it all sounds pretty cool, not to mention doable. At least on paper.
Sources say that, all things considered, it will take some 5 years before the UK scientists have enough information to roll out trials.