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  "textContent": "BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Cancer treatment has no shortage of big ideas, but this one has a certain dark charm: send in bacteria that thrive where healthy human cells struggle, then let them chew through a tumor’s interior. A research team led by the University of Waterloo is working on a therapy concept […]\n\nThe post Cancer-fighting bacteria: how engineered microbes could “eat” tumors from the inside out first appeared on The Optimist Daily: Making Solutions the News.",
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