Bacteria-based drug delivery system that outperforms conventional methods

(Virginia Tech) " Its (salmonella's) job as a pathogen is to penetrate through the tissue, " Behkam said. " What we thought is if bacteria are so good at moving through the tissue, how about coupling nanomedicine with the bacterium to carry that medicine much farther than it'd passively diffuse on its own? "
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news