A BACTERIA commonly found in probiotic yogurt has been shown to be a safe and effective way to deliver gene therapies to treat cancer.

Noriyuki Kasahara, president of the International Society for Cell and Gene Therapy of Cancer, said:

“The work being done at Cork Cancer Research Centre at UCC is certainly at the cutting edge of science: no one has ever shown before that you can take an orally administered safe bacteria and have it hone into a tumour mass before and act there.”

Read more in the Irish Independent article “Yogurt helps cancer medicine go down”