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Microbes can redeem themselves to fight disease

With some genetic engineering, bacteria can morph from bad to good

Bacterial healers

BACTERIAL HEALERS  Researchers are using modified versions of disease-causing bacteria to fight tumor cells.

Nicolle Rager Fuller

By Susan Gaidos

- More than 2 years ago

Normally, you wouldn’t want to have anything to do with Clostridium novyi.

The rod-shaped bacterium is commonly found in soil, manure or under rotting leaves.