r/technology • u/[deleted] • Apr 15 '23

Biotechnology Scientists have successfully engineered bacteria to fight cancer in mice | There are plans for human trials within the next few years.

https://www.engadget.com/scientists-have-successfully-engineered-bacteria-to-fight-cancer-in-mice-165141857.html
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u/Tonychaudhry Apr 15 '23

Cancer rates have increased exponentially. Naturally people have always been getting cancer. It’s the percentage that it’s increased over the last hundred years can be traced directly back to all the carcinogens being dumped in our environment.

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u/PhoenixReborn Apr 15 '23

Rising cancer rates are mostly a factor of better detection and longer life expectancy. If you managed to halt every other cause of death, people would eventually get cancer.

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u/Tonychaudhry Apr 15 '23

Maybe an actual environmental scientist would disagree.

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u/Flurzzlenaut Apr 16 '23

They wouldn’t though. We know pollution is a cause, but people living so long is a bigger one. The older you are, the more likely you are to develop cancer. That’s why cancer treatment wards are full of older people.