In recent years, Salmonella has tainted foods including spinach, peanut butter and eggs, sickening thousands of people in the process. But researchers hope that these microbes will make headlines for a better reason: curing cancer. They want to harness Salmonella's special ability to thrive in oxygen-deprived conditions to target regions of solid tumors that are normally immune to conventional therapies. Elie Dolgin reports.
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Dolgin, E. From spinach scare to cancer care. Nat Med 17, 273–275 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0311-273
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