The pandemic has left some evidence that viral infection may play a role in reawakening dormant cancer cells already present ...

A newly discovered virus hiding inside a common gut bacterium could help explain one of medicine’s long-standing mysteries: why a microbe found in both healthy people and cancer patients is linked to ...

When people consider cancer risk, the first things that come to mind are usually things like genes smoking diet, or pollution. But infections can also contribute. Cancer-causing viruses, also called ...

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have designed non-toxic Salmonella bacteria to deliver viruses that ...

Tackling a common childhood virus could open the door to preventing bladder cancer, according to new research funded by Kidney Research UK and York Against Cancer. The study, published in Science ...

Bacteriophages (blue) infecting a bacterium. (Nemes Laszlo/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) Researchers have made a significant step forward in understanding how gut bacteria, and specifically a ...

A new study looks into the differences in gut bacteria between people with and without colorectal cancer. Scientists found cancer patients to have a virus-infected bacterium that healthy people ...

Tackling a common childhood virus could open the door to preventing bladder cancer, according to new research. The study, published in Science Advances by Dr. Simon Baker and colleagues at the ...

Scientists have recently developed a therapy that uses bacteria to deliver viruses to destroy tumor cells. The treatment ...

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have designed non-toxic Salmonella bacteria to deliver viruses that ...

A cancer-killing virus has stopped pancreatic tumours from growing and spreading in three people in an initial safety trial, ...