An Innovative New Cancer Therapy Hijacks Bacteria to Fight Tumours
Researchers from South Korea have engineered a strain of bacteria that infiltrates tumours and fools the body’s immune system into attacking cancer cells.
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Researchers from South Korea have engineered a strain of bacteria that infiltrates tumours and fools the body’s immune system into attacking cancer cells.
The remains of the ancient slip, known as the Gloria Knolls Slide, were discovered 46 miles (75 km) off the north Queensland coast.
A cliff collapse extinguished it, but the good news is that it's back!
Evidence continues to mount that fish oil might be snake oil. Figuratively speaking.
Early reports from NASA indicate 10 people have sustained minor injuries.
The world seems like it’s only full of ugly and terrible things right now, but find a microscope and you’ll discover there’s still beauty to be found.
Conservationists say it’s an important first step that could influence similar efforts elsewhere.
A team of astronomers have stared into the Sun long enough that they think they’ve found the source of the slowdown.
Needless to say, building the perfect paper plane isn't anything to do with luck.
Supermassive black holes don’t care for our human constructions of lunchtime—it turns out they’ll eat for a decade if they choose.
The abnormally big scales tear off exceptionally easy, providing the animals with an effective anti-predator defence mechanism.
The idea that Helium atoms don’t interact with other atoms to create compounds might need some reevaluating.
If the trends continue, we’re going to need a new last-last-resort drug that’s hopefully not the last one.
In case it’s not obvious, this is very cheap.
Called Calvapilosa, it’s one of the earliest — and weirdest — mollusks ever discovered.
They’re just hungry and misunderstood — who can’t relate to that?
