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Swiss researchers are developing naturally magnetic bacteria belonging to the genus Magnetospirillum to carry chemotherapeutic agents into cancerous tumors.  These bacteria can be “loaded” with drugs and steered across blood vessel walls and deeply into tumor tissues using rotating magnetic fields.  The bacteria are able to carry chemotherapy drugs in nanospheres, fatty micro bubbles that are attached to bacterial cell walls.

 

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.abo0665

 

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