Scientists discover hidden virus in gut bacteria that may be linked to colorectal cancer development, offering new insights ...

A previously unknown virus may be the key to assessing the risk of colorectal cancer and improving diagnosis.

They found a previously unknown virus living inside a common gut bacterium that appears more often in people with colorectal cancer. The findings suggest that cancer risk may depend not only on which ...

Researchers from the University of Southern Denmark have identified a new virus that appears to be linked to colon cancer.

The circumstances surrounding a study on a deadly virus could hardly have been more dramatic. One of its first authors was forced to flee his homeland when it became a war zone. More than 2,000 ...

The microbes could surrender to the harmless virus, but instead freeze in place, dormant, waiting for their potential predator to go away, according to a recent study in mBio. University of Illinois ...

Colorectal cancer is one of the most common types of cancer in the Western world and a leading cause of cancer-related deaths ...