Cancer cells are cells gone wrong — in other words, they no longer respond to many of the signals that control cellular growth and death. Cancer cells originate within tissues and, as they grow ...

Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have found a pattern of so-called epigenetic "marks" in a transition state between ...

Cells don’t just follow a rigid script when responding to stress – they’re far more adaptable than we thought. A new study ...

Scientists are looking for answers about how these confounding trips, known as metastases, occur throughout the human body Illustration of a human cancer cell Amber Dance, Knowable Magazine Back ...

Chemotherapy drugs can kill cancer cells by halting DNA replication, but a glucose-depleted environment can help cancer cells overcome this effect and resist death. Sahana is a science journalist and ...

B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) is a life-threatening and highly aggressive form of blood cancer. It is the most ...

It uses a patient’s own immune system to fight certain blood cancers. Normal T cells can “hook” onto cancer cells and kill them, but cancer cells can change so the hooks no longer work. In CAR T cell ...

Researchers have performed the first known transplant of sperm-producing stem cells in hopes of restoring fertility in a man ...