A broccoli a day keeps cancer at bay

Engineered probiotics can target and kill colorectal cancer cells in the presence of a substance found in some vegetables

Date:

January 10, 2018

Source:

National University of Singapore, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine

Summary:

Researchers have engineered bacteria that specifically targets colorectal cancer cells and converts a substance in some vegetables into an anticancer agent. The system reduced the number of tumors by 75 percent and shrank the remaining tumors by threefold in a mouse model of colorectal cancer. Published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, the study suggests that the probiotics taken together with a diet rich in cruciferous vegetables could help prevent colorectal cancer and its recurrence.

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