Cancer-Screening Yogurt In Development?

Is the next cancer-fighting weapon in your refrigerator? It may be one day soon, according to Reviewed.

MIT professor Sangeeta Bhatia is creating a yogurt that will provide a cost-effective, easy, in-home way to screen for colon cancer by modifying the bacteria found in yogurt. The altered bacteria would deliver artificial molecules into the consumer's renal system.

Cancer-related enzymes would be able to break down those molecules, pass them through the kidneys and evacuate them via urine. A urine test, similar to a home pregnancy test, would check the urine for signs of cancer.

This would be less invasive than a colonoscopy and less expensive than the at-home fecal occult test recently approved by the FDA.

And tastier.