I have been trying to steer away from bad science news in an effort to safeguard my stomach lining. However, I completely failed a couple of weeks ago when an especially improbably headline struck me. According to the Daily Mail, eating broccoli-based yogurt (?!) could curb the rise of bowel cancer. I couldn’t help but investigate.
The Mail article refers to an (excellent) 2017 Nature Biomedical Engineering paper which contains some truly ground-breaking work in the field of cancer prevention. Researchers from the University Of Singapore engineered a strain of bacteria that is usually present in the human gut (part of
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