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 ...

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, ...

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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 ...

When John Marshall, MD, began practicing oncology 30 years ago, “no young people got colorectal cancer,” he tells us. “Now, [that demographic] is about a third of my clinic.” Initially, experts ...

Everywhere you go, you carry a population of microbes in your gastrointestinal tract that outnumber the human cells making up your body. This microbiome has important connections to health in your gut ...

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 ...