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Researchers are engineering Clostridium sporogenes, a bacterium found in soil, to destroy cancer tumors from the inside out. It thrives in the oxygen-depleted, dead-cell core of tumors, and has been modified with synthetic biology to survive in the tumor's outer areas to fully eliminate it.