Bacteria synchronized for drug delivery

Shibin Zhou ()
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Shibin Zhou: Shibin Zhou is in the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Ludwig Center for Cancer Genetics and Therapeutics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA.

Nature, 2016, vol. 536, issue 7614, 33-34

Abstract: A synthetic genetic circuit that mimics the quorum-sensing systems used by bacterial populations to coordinate gene expression enables bacteria to deliver drugs to mouse tumours in repeated and synchronized cycles. See Letter p.81

Date: 2016
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