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 ...

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 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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bacteriophages (blue) infecting a bacterium. (Nemes Laszlo/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) Researchers have made a significant ...

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have designed non-toxic Salmonella bacteria to deliver viruses that are safe to humans but potent against liver and pancreatic cancer tumors - ...

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have designed non-toxic Salmonella bacteria to deliver viruses that are safe to humans but potent against liver and pancreatic cancer tumors—two ...

(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 ...