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

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.