Anti-cancer therapy faces major challenges, particularly in terms of specificity of treatment.
The ideal therapy would eradicate tumour cells selectively with minimum side effects on …

Micromotors are devices that operate at the microscale and convert energy to motion. Many
micromotors are microswimmers, ie, devices that can move freely in a liquid at a low …

Nanoparticles and bacteria can be used, independently, to deliver genes and proteins into
mammalian cells for monitoring or altering gene expression and protein production. Here …

The contribution of bacterial infection to tumorigenesis is usually ascribed to infection-
associated inflammation. An alternate view is that direct interaction of bacteria with tumor …

Lactic acid bacteria (LAB), widely used in the food industry, are present in the intestine of
most animals, including humans. The potential use of these bacteria as mucosal delivery …

Associations between different bacteria and various tumours have been reported in patients
for decades. Studies involving characterisation of bacteria within tumour tissues have …

Current treatment strategies for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) seek to alleviate the
undesirable symptoms of the disorder. Despite the higher specificity of newer generation …

The ability to track microbes in real time in vivo is of enormous value for preclinical
investigations in infectious disease or gene therapy research. Bacteria present an attractive …

Certain bacteria have emerged as biological gene vectors with natural tumor specificity,
capable of specifically delivering genes or gene products to the tumor environment when …

An improved system for luciferase tagging Listeria monocytogenes was developed by
constructing a highly active, constitutive promoter. This construct gave 100-fold-higher …