Bacteria-killing viruses redirect vaccine immunity to destroy cancer

newscientist - Phages, viruses that infect bacteria, could be genetically manipulated to destroy cancerous cells using the immunity we have acquired from vaccines

AI Summary: Researchers show bacteriophages can redirect existing vaccine‑induced immunity to attack cancer cells, effectively hijacking antiviral immune memory to target tumours. This clever preclinical strategy repurposes phages as delivery vehicles and immunomodulators, opening a potential new class of off‑the‑shelf immunotherapies that could complement or bypass current T‑cell approaches — if it survives the usual valley of translation.