E. coli swims well, while there’s plenty of room for drugs inside a red blood cell Alapan et al., Sci. Robot. 3, eaar4423 (2018)
A curious hybrid of a red blood cell and an E. coli bacterium could make an ideal transporter for carrying drugs inside the body.
Drug treatments often have side effects by causing changes elsewhere in the body, prompting researchers to hunt for clever ways to package drugs and target them more precisely to where they are needed. A previous effort used sperm to carry drugs towards mini tumours in a dish.
Cells of E. coli…
