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Bacterial therapies have many advantages over standard cancer therapies — they specifically target tumours, induce controllable cytotoxicity and can be externally detected. This Innovation article proposes that synthetic biology can be applied to bacterial therapies and can tune their beneficial features, allowing the engineering of 'perfect' cancer therapies.
Combining image analysis with mass spectrometry techniques provides new possibilities for molecular pathology. What are the applications of imaging mass spectrometry (IMS) using matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization (MALDI)?
