A McGill University-led research collaboration has achieved a breakthrough in understanding how cancer spreads. A clinical ...

Natural killer cells aren't just mindless defenders — a special type, adaptive NK cells, remember their enemies and come back ...

This week, archaeologists identified depictions of the Milky Way galaxy in ancient Egyptian imagery. A mathematician found a ...

The ability of mutations to cause cancer depends on how fast they force cells to divide, Sinai Health researchers have found.

Researchers have shown that activation of the protein YAP, known to help cancer cells survive treatment, behaves very ...

Breast cancer is becoming increasingly treatable, but in some cases the disease can resurface even decades after a patient ...

It has also been a focus of researchers developing treatments for cancer by finding ways to activate the cell death of cancer cells themselves. Ferroptosis is a recently discovered form of ...

Researchers have discovered a previously unknown type of connective tissue cells that surround cancer cells in pancreatic tumors. The newly discovered cells counteract tumor development and may ...

Called EchoBack CAR T-cells, these new cancer-fighting tools work with a quick burst of focused ultrasound to destroy tumors while avoiding damage to healthy tissues. This breakthrough is the ...

Researchers have uncovered a unique ability of a special subtype of natural killer cells in the immune system, called adaptive NK cells, to remember ovarian tumors and effectively attack them. The ...