Cancer cells possess a remarkable quality called plasticity. This means they can change their form. This ability helps them survive and spread. Cancer cells act like young cells. They can adapt to ...

Cancer cells have fewer heavy hydrogen atoms in their lipids as compared to healthy cells. The finding unearths a potential geochemical tool for cancer diagnosis in the future. As the daughter of a ...

Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have found a pattern of so-called epigenetic "marks" in a transition state between normal and pancreatic cancer cells in mice, and that the normal cells may ...

A team of researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Texas Children’s Hospital and collaborating institutions reveal in the journal Nature a novel mechanism that ...

A cancer drug target already being investigated in clinical trials turns out to be doing something even more consequential ...

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