GUANGZHOU, China — Trillions of viruses are living in your intestines right now, and they might be secretly controlling whether you stay healthy or get sick. Most of these microscopic entities target ...

Researchers discover a hidden virus in gut bacteria that could explain colon cancer and help detect it earlier ...

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 cells have been ...

A new study reveals that the gut microbiome is way more complex than people might think. A virus in it may hold the key to ...

Cancer research has long looked at bacteria and viruses as separate tools for therapy. Now, researchers are showing that the two can actually work better together. A team of scientists has built a new ...

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 ...

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Despite many decades of effort and numerous human trials, only one virus that is designed to kill cancers has ever been approved by regulators in the US and Europe. But a second could get the green ...

A virus that typically infects black-eyed peas is showing great promise as a low-cost, potent cancer immunotherapy-and researchers are uncovering why. In a study published in Cell Biomaterials, a team ...

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 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 ...