Chinese scientists have revealed a hidden metabolic partnership between breast cancer cells and immune cells that drives ...

In a study of the immune systems of mice, scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have found a new role for a protein, ...

Back in 2014, a woman with advanced cancer pushed Adrienne Boire’s scientific life in a whole new direction. The cancer, ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Carcinoma is a type of cancer that starts in cells that make up the skin or the tissue lining organs, such as the liver or kidneys. Like other types of cancer, carcinomas are abnormal cells that ...

Researchers have discovered that cancer cells suppress 'poison exons' -- genetic elements that act as an off switch for protein production -- in a key gene called TRA2 , promoting tumor growth.