🦠 The Tiny Army in Your Body: How Scientists Are Using Bacteria to Fight Cancer

Forget what you know about bacteria being just germs. Scientists are now recruiting them as tiny, living robots to hunt down and destroy one of our biggest enemies: cancer. And honestly, it’s one of the coolest (and slightly weirdest) things happening in medicine right now.

Let's break down how this works.

A History Lesson (with a Twist)

Believe it or not, doctors noticed over 150 years ago that sometimes, a cancer patient who got a nasty bacterial infection would see their tumors shrink. 🧐 It was a weird, dangerous glitch in the system, but it revealed a secret: bacteria naturally love to grow inside tumors.

Why? Tumors are like a messy, leaky, nutrient-packed playground for bacteria—a perfect hideout from your immune system.