Fecal microbe transplants help cancer patients respond to immunotherapy and shrink tumours
Diwakar Davar, University of Pittsburgh The effect of a drug, or impact of a treatment…
Browsing: bacteria
Microbial DNA in patient blood may be tell-tale sign of cancer
When Gregory Poore was attending university, his otherwise healthy grandmother was shocked to learn that…
Cervical microbiome may promote high-grade precancerous lesions
Infections with a Human Papillomavirus (HPV) cause 99 percent of cervical cancer cases, and the…
Bacteria promote lung tumour development, study suggests
MIT cancer biologists have discovered a new mechanism that lung tumours exploit to promote their…
Tongue microbiome could help identify patients with early-stage pancreatic cancer
Differences in the abundance of certain bacteria living on the tongue can distinguish patients with…
Bacteria help discover human cancer-causing proteins
A team led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Texas…
Explainer: what is Helicobacter pylori?
Phil Sutton, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute In 1982, two Australians – Robin Warren and Barry…
Colon cancer is caused by bacteria and cell stress
Professor Dirk Haller and his team, from the Department of Nutrition and Immunology at the…
Specific microbes in digestive tract can boost melanoma immunotherapy success
In the Jan. 5, 2018 issue of Science, researchers from the University of Chicago Medicine show…
Programming anti-tumoural bacteria
Scientists have recruited modified bacteria to help fight cancer, which successfully infiltrated tumours and activated…