Engineered viruses using bacteria as a Trojan horse could be the next big thing in cancer treatment.

Virus-based treatments are already approved to treat several types of cancer, and combining them with bacteria could make ...

Using bacteria to sneak viruses into tumors The bioengineered platform enables a cancer-killing virus to evade the patient’s immune system — and prevents it from spreading throughout the body.

Antimicrobial resistance is a growing threat, one that health officials say could lead to 10 million deaths by 2050. It’s a scenario that makes discovering new ways to combat drug-resistant infections ...

Researchers at Columbia Engineering have built a cancer therapy that makes bacteria and viruses work as a team. In a study published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, the Synthetic Biological ...

In only three weeks, this accelerated arms race between bacteria (Escherichia coli) and viruses (bacteriophage, or “phage”) results in several generations of evolutionary adaptations.

‘Phage Therapy:’ Some Viruses Prey On Bacteria — Are They the Forgotten Secret To Medical Cures? In promising experiments, phage therapy forces bacteria into a no-win dilemma.