A new biomaterial developed by researchers from The University of Western Australia is providing fresh insights into the way ...

In their quest to understand how cancers take root, grow and spread, scientists have for the past half-century explored the ...

Damaged DNA can escape from one human cell and infiltrate another. Like prisoners tunneling out of jail, this DNA travels via tubelike structures between neighboring cells, scientists report May 19 in ...

“We needed some wins, and we are finally seeing some wins in small cell lung cancer with survival benefits like we have not ...

Some cancer cells evade treatment by entering a dormant state triggered by stress hormones. ETH Zurich scientists have created a light-controlled molecular switch that selectively destroys the ...

Researchers discovered a possible way cancer cells hide from the immune system: they build a thick, sugar-rich coating around ...

Chemotherapy remains what many people picture when they hear a cancer diagnosis, but treatment for certain blood cancers now ...

For years, one of the most powerful weapons against certain blood cancers, called CAR-T therapy, has required an elaborate process: Doctors extract a patient’s immune cells, ship them to a specialized ...

Cancer cells can brainwash their neighbors. Like the CIA deploying secret agents to turn an enemy, tumors use a similar strategy to manipulate nearby cells. The tumors’ agents are mitochondria, the ...

When a cell gets ready to divide, it shuts down its gene-reading machinery almost entirely. For decades, the mechanism behind ...