Stanford University researchers have discovered virus-like ‘lifeforms’ that exist inside human mouths and guts. Smaller than ...

Hidden in the lungs of some breast cancer survivors are tumour cells that can remain dormant for decades — until they one day ...

Researchers at Kumamoto University have identified a silencer element in the HTLV-1 genome that enables the virus to remain dormant by recruiting the host’s RUNX1 transcription factor. Removing this ...

Bacteria infected by phage Researchers at the University of Southampton have worked out how bacteria defend themselves ...

Improved understanding of how bacterial defense mechanisms operate may help scientists select phages with the best chance of ...

The U.S. FDA has granted fast track designation to treatment with CLD-201, an oncolytic virus, for patients with soft tissue ...

HIV antivirals may be the key to stopping HTLV-1, a deadly virus with no cure. In a decade-long study, researchers successfully suppressed the virus in mice and discovered a way to kill infected cells ...

In a study involving mice exposed to COVID-19, researchers found the respiratory infections triggered dormant cancer cells to ...

Here’s how it works. Bacteriophages, as pictured above, normally infect bacteria, but they also interact with mammalian cells. (Image credit: Westend61 via Getty Images) ...