Combating Cancer With Invisible Bacteria

River D'Almeida, Ph.D
The Reading Frame
Published in
3 min readMar 21, 2022

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The bugs get cleared by immune cells when they’ve done their job

Photo by Michael Dziedzic on Unsplash

As the Welsh legend tells, one of King Arthur’s most prized possessions was his ‘Mantle of Invisibility’ — a cloak that bestows the power of hiding in plain sight upon its wearer.

A team of engineers at Columbia University has created a similar superpower as a mechanism to combat cancer. The researchers…

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River D'Almeida, Ph.D
The Reading Frame

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