Cancer research has long looked at bacteria and viruses as separate tools for therapy. Now, researchers are showing that the two can actually work better together. A team of scientists has built a new ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — A virus known for causing health scares could be used to treat a rare cancer in children. Researchers at Nemours Children’s Hospital found that an injection of the Zika virus can ...

A virus from humble black-eyed peas is showing extraordinary promise in the fight against cancer. Unlike other plant viruses, the cowpea mosaic virus (CPMV) can awaken the human immune system and ...

Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma that does not respond to treatment with an immunotherapy called a checkpoint inhibitor has no FDA-approved therapeutic alternatives. Replimune’s lead program, an ...

The United States officially launched its "war on cancer" by signing the National Cancer Act of 1971. Broadly, the intention was to spur research into the biology of cancer to better treat — and ...

NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo will host an hour-long special program, “Killing Cancer,” to examine a potentially groundbreaking ...

Every year, over 80,000 Americans are diagnosed with it. Nearly 800,000 Americans are living with it and some 16,000 will likely die from it. It’s the 6th most common cancer in the country. And yet, ...

Equipping cancer-infecting, or oncolytic, viruses with tumor-inhibiting genetic cargo stimulates the immune system and helps immunotherapy to shrink or completely clear aggressive tumors in mice, ...

(WGN) – Herpes can cause cold sores and fever blisters, and it may also hold the key to understanding cancer. One scientist has spent 30 years studying a virus so ubiquitous that it’s estimated to ...

Moderna is halting development of an mRNA vaccine for congenital cytomegalovirus after its candidate failed to protect women from the virus in a large phase 3 trial, the biotech announced in a ...