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

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

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 ...

Bacteriophages (blue) infecting a bacterium. (Nemes Laszlo/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) Researchers have made 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 ...

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

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 team led by investigators at Mass General Brigham and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has shown that a single injection of an oncolytic virus—a genetically modified virus that selectively infects and ...

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