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 ...

A new study suggests that the key to understanding colorectal cancer may lie not only in gut bacteria, but in the viruses ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The researchers, from institutions in Denmark and Australia, wanted to take a closer look at an association previously identified ...

Newly discovered virus linked to colorectal cancer Researchers from the University of Southern Denmark have identified a new virus in a common gut bacterium. The virus is found significantly more ...

Researchers at the University of Southern Denmark have identified a previously unknown virus hiding inside a common gut bacterium, and it appears to double the odds of colorectal cancer. The study, ...

The gut bacterium Bacteroides fragilis has long presented researchers with a paradox. It has been associated with colorectal cancer, yet it also lives quite happily in most healthy people. A study by ...

New research shows that a large, ubiquitous mobile genetic element changes the antagonistic weaponry of Bacteroides fragilis, a common bacterium of the human gut. Bacteria evolve rapidly in the human ...