You might want to park at the door any assumptions about bacteria being primitive, inert or yucky. This is a story about genetically engineered forms of bacteria that may someday diagnose cancer by analyzing a urine sample, and that have already shown a knack for recognizing the hallmarks of diabetes in humans without so much as a pinprick. http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/
Article courtesy of the Los Angeles Times/Science Now by Melissa Healy
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