Bacteria in Tumors May Reduce the Efficacy of Cancer Chemotherapy (1 of 6) (IMAGE)

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Bacteria in Tumors May Reduce the Efficacy of Cancer Chemotherapy (1 of 6)

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An example of an experiment where bacteria (green) and cancer cells (red) are co-cultured. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 15 September 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by L.T. Geller at Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, and colleagues was titled, "Potential role of intratumor bacteria in mediating tumor resistance to the chemotherapeutic drug gemcitabine."

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Leore Geller

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