Researchers have developed a synthetic biological strategy to enable Clostridium sporogenes to thrive in the low oxygen ...

Researchers are engineering bacteria to invade tumors and consume them from the inside. Because tumor cores lack oxygen, they ...

A research team led by the University of Waterloo is developing a novel tool to treat cancer by engineering hungry bacteria ...

Key to the approach is a bacterium called Clostridium sporogenes, which is commonly found in soil and can only grow in ...

Dr. Mary Wells, a Waterloo doctor and dean of engineering at University of Waterloo, was appointed to the Order of Ontario for her contributions in materials engineering and education.

I was born into an engineering family: my dad is a civil engineer and works in wastewater management in Burton, New Brunswick, where I grew up. I was interested in building and creating things from a ...

Starved of oxygen and filled with decaying tissue, the heart of a cancerous tumour creates a perfect environment where these tumour-eating bacterium can multiply.