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FFP Story — Virus and Bacteria Team Up to Fight Cancer (EP. 6)
Season 1
Episode 6
Published 1 year, 1 month ago
Description
Hosted by Lester Nare and Krishna Choudhary, this story explores a groundbreaking cancer therapy from Columbia Engineering that uses bacteria to smuggle viruses directly into tumors. The result? A synergistic “buddy cop” approach where pathogens team up against cancer, showing 100% survival in early mouse studies and pointing toward a new frontier in adaptive biotherapy.
Summary
- Marvel-style intro: viruses + bacteria as the ultimate team-up
- Columbia Engineering’s CAPSID therapy published in Nature Biomedical Engineering
- Trojan horse design: bacteria smuggle viruses into tumors
- Why current treatments (chemo, radiation, CAR-T) struggle with specificity
- Experimental results in mice: tumors eliminated in both injected and distant sites
- Adaptive, modular potential for future cancer therapies
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