Tumours and tectonics: magnets making a mark
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William Colley discovered in cancer patients tumor regressions when they also had a bacterial infection. He figured that there seems to be a natural tumor homing of bacteria where they can also have a therapeutic function such as that they would recruit immune cells. This was the first form of immunotherapy. If you have magnetically responsive bacteria, you can use magnetic fields to help them better accumulate in tumor tissue. How do you make a bacterium magnetically sensitive? I've been working with magnetic fields and magnetic control.
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