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Dan Worthley, Gastroenterologist and cancer scientist, South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute

Genetically engineered bacteria can detect cancer cells in a world-first experiment

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As medical technology advances, many diseases could be detected, prevented and cured with cells, rather than pills.

This branch of medicine is called cellular or cell therapy. It’s already used in clinical practice in some situations, such as patients receiving faecal microbial transplants (“poo transplants”) when they have a severe gastrointestinal infection, or a bone marrow transplant for treating blood cancer.

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