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Revision as of 14:52, 7 October 2017
Cancer kills over 8 million people every year. That's the entire population of Switzerland!
We need more specific therapies because current approaches result in many side-effects.
That's why we created CATE: Cancer-Targeting E. coli.
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We need more specific therapies because current approaches result in many side-effects.
That's why we created CATE: Cancer-Targeting E. coli.
Learn more
CATE consists of the non-pathogenic bacterium E. coli Nissle that has the intrinsic ability to home specifically in tumors.
We are engineering E. coli Nissle to carry a MRI contrast and a cytotoxic agent so it can deliver both components to tumor sites.
Project description
We are engineering E. coli Nissle to carry a MRI contrast and a cytotoxic agent so it can deliver both components to tumor sites.
Project description
CATE is administered intravenously, travels through the blood and colonizes tumors where the bacteria form a highly dense layer between the live and dead zone of the tumor