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How might radioactive bacteria battle cancer?
The radioactive bacteria treatment reduced the number of metastatic cells by 90% compared with mice given a saline solution, the team reports online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Now, researchers have developed a potential new treatment method involving radioactive, genetically modified bacteria that target tumor cells throughout the body, but leave healthy tissue alone.
Its 4-man crew, snug as four bugs in a rug, can seal themselves in & thus escape poison gas, enemy bacteria, and radioactive fallout.
Dr Dadachova thinks this is because, as the immune system killed the Listeria, the radioactive remains of the bacteria were shipped to the liver to be broken down and recycled, while anything unusable was collected by the kidneys for excretion.Fortunately this may not matter, for the high doses of radiation the liver and kidneys received did not seem to do them much damage.
The air-curtain separates two adjacent environments and reduces the transfers of bacteria and radioactive particles.
Experiments with radioactive methane revealed that bacteria living in the moss rapidly converted the gas into carbon dioxide which was then sucked up by the moss.
An analysis of whole cell protein expression of Chlamydia pneumoniae (Table) during growth in HEp-2 cells and in response to treatment with interferon-γ was possible after radioactive labeling of the bacteria (22).
If that works, then three negatives (an infectious bacterium, a radioactive isotope and a nasty cancer) will have come together to produce a positive outcome a piece of medical algebra that defies conventional mathematics.
The bacteria tolerated their radioactive payloads with little complaint.
Still, the idea of using bacteria to treat radioactive waste may have broad and important implications, says Kostka, since DOE facilities that once made nuclear weapons have vast contaminated underground areas.
