Cells aren’t as passive as scientists once thought—they actively create internal currents to move proteins quickly and ...

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 ...

"The cancer cells are acting like they’re infected." ...

A small molecule inside your body quietly fuels life every day. It helps your cells turn fat into energy, keeping your heart ...

Adelaide University researchers are preparing to send living cancer cells into space aboard a suborbital rocket, in a ...

Cancer cells that have broken away from a primary tumor can lurk in the body for years in a dormant state, evading immune defenders and biding their time until conditions are ripe for establishing a ...

Scientists at University of California, San Diego (UCSD), have developed a new approach to destroying cancer stem cells (CSCs)—the hard-to-find cells that help cancers spread, come back after ...

A group of scientists with the University of Texas at Austin and MD Anderson Cancer Center discovered that a potential chemotherapy drug was causing an immune response that usually occurs in response ...

Trudy Oliver, professor of pharmacology and cancer biology, is part of a team of scientists that recently published a study uncovering a major shift in how scientists understand small-cell lung cancer ...