When a cancer cell leaves the original tumor to spread to a new, faraway location, it first has to survive what most cells ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising way tumors turn the immune system to their advantage. Researchers at the University of Geneva found that neutrophils—normally frontline defenders against ...

Damaged DNA can escape from one human cell and infiltrate another. Like prisoners tunneling out of jail, this DNA travels via tubelike structures between neighboring cells, scientists report May 19 in ...

For highly aggressive types of blood cancer, stem cell transplantation is often the only potentially curative therapy, yet even after a transplant, these cancers often return. Now a clinical trial, ...

Biological sex factors into cancer in ways you might not expect. In lung cancer, a form called squamous cell carcinoma disproportionately affects males while adenocarcinoma occurs more frequently in ...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have identified the immune cell that acts as the architect and ...

Researchers, including those from the University of Tokyo, found a way to optimize how cells bind to small packages they ...