By Jocelyn Selim

Beyond Viruses

A gut feeling leads to another infectious cause of cancer

By Jocelyn Selim

In order to infect us, viruses must insert themselves into our DNA—it’s this quality that makes them particularly likely to interrupt a cell’s normal growth and turn it cancerous. Bacteria, on the other hand, don’t invade our DNA. But they can still cause cancer.

In the early 1980s, Australian pathologist J. ...

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