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Brian Ingalls, Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo

UNCOVERED: How we are engineering bacteria to eat cancer - Caught on Camera

Modern medicine has made significant advances in cancer treatments over the decades. But all cancer therapies still face one critical challenge: how to target cancers without damaging healthy cells.

Imperfect solutions lead to side-effects: surgery and radiation can damage nearby healthy tissue, while chemotherapy can indiscriminately target fast-growing cells, damaging healthy hair follicles and stomach lining.

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