A new study has detected all major human cancer-causing viruses in wastewater, opening up fresh possibilities for tracking ...

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 ...

Researchers from the University of Hong Kong have discovered that the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), a common human virus closely linked to nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), can change the 3D structure of ...

(THE CONVERSATION) When the first cells appeared on Earth approximately 3.8 billion years ago, viruses were already here to greet them. Ever since, viruses have been devising ways to infect cells, and ...

A study published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology is the first comprehensive approach to detect all known ...

University of Buffalo postdoctoral researcher Kasturika Shankar discusses how HPV hijacks cellular protein-making machinery ...

In a recent study published in Nature, an international team of researchers showed that respiratory viral infections awaken dormant breast cancer cells in the lungs. Breast cancer is the most ...

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 found a way to make one of the most aggressive brain tumors vulnerable to the immune system. A single injection of a modified virus can invade glioblastoma, kill cancer cells, and ...

A new kind of CRISPR that destroys cells rather than gene editing them has shown potential for killing sick cells while ...

A recent Views & Comments article published in Engineering highlights advances in repurposing influenza viruses as flexible ...