image: Bacteria residing on the human skin produce an antimetabolite that inhibits cancer. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 28 February 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by T. Nakatsuji at University of California, San Diego in La Jolla, CA, and colleagues was titled, "A commensal strain of Staphylococcus epidermidis protects against skin neoplasia." view more
Credit: [Credit: Drs. Gallo and Nakatsuji, Dermatology, UC San Diego]