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Voodoo Dolls, Roller-Coasters for Kidney Stones Win at Ig Nobels
Voodoo Dolls, Roller-Coasters for Kidney Stones Win at Ig Nobels
The awards for comical but practical scientific discovery also include cannibalism and self-colonoscopy.
Voodoo Dolls, Roller-Coasters for Kidney Stones Win at Ig Nobels
Voodoo Dolls, Roller-Coasters for Kidney Stones Win at Ig Nobels

The awards for comical but practical scientific discovery also include cannibalism and self-colonoscopy.

The awards for comical but practical scientific discovery also include cannibalism and self-colonoscopy.

cell & molecular biology, cancer

Third Retraction for Harvard Cancer Biologist
Katarina Zimmer | Jul 25, 2018 | 4 min read
The move follows two major corrections to a 2011 Nature paper, in which researchers demonstrated that a natural compound selectively kills cancer cells.
Natural Killer Cells Prove Effective as a CAR Therapy in Mice
Katarina Zimmer | Jul 6, 2018 | 4 min read
Stem-cell–derived natural killer cells engineered in a similar way to CAR-T cells may pave the way to “off the shelf” cancer therapies that aren’t patient-specific.
Image of the Day: New Kids on the Block
Sukanya Charuchandra | Jun 7, 2018 | 1 min read
Researchers discover that a layer of human breast tissue is not one but two distinct cell types.  
A T-Cell Tweak Combats Advanced Breast Cancer
Ashley Yeager | Jun 5, 2018 | 2 min read
The immunotherapy eliminated a woman’s metastatic lesions and kept her disease-free for two years.
Image of the Day: Cancer Spheroid
The Scientist Staff | May 15, 2018 | 1 min read
3-D balls of cells can be used to screen for potential cancer drugs.
Stem Cell Vaccine Protects Mice From Cancer
Ruth Williams | Feb 15, 2018 | 3 min read
Stem cells and cancer cells have enough molecular similarities that the former can be used to trigger immunity against the latter.
Cancer Researcher, Former AACR President Dies
Kerry Grens | Nov 13, 2017 | 2 min read
Donald Coffey, a longtime professor at Johns Hopkins University, discovered the nuclear matrix within cells and its role in DNA replication.
Infographic: Macrophages Around the Body
Claire Asher | Sep 30, 2017 | 2 min read
In addition to circulating in the blood as immune sentinels, macrophages play specialized roles in different organs around the body.
Cell Cannibalism as Cancer Defense
Jef Akst | Jul 11, 2017 | 1 min read
A new study suggests that the mysterious process by which one cell consumes another may be triggered by cell division, potentially helping to fight tumor growth.
Extra Centrosomes Can Drive Tumor Formation in Mice
Diana Kwon | Apr 1, 2017 | 2 min read
Mice engineered to overproduce the organelles involved in cell division spontaneously develop malignancies.
Starvation Response Triggers Melanoma Invasion
Catherine Offord | Apr 1, 2017 | 2 min read
Through similar mechanisms, amino acid depletion in culture and cytokine activity in the tumor microenvironment prompt cancer cells to metastasize.
Infographic: Mechanisms of Resistance
Anna Azvolinsky | Mar 31, 2017 | 1 min read
Cancers appear to be able to evolve resistance to many of the therapies doctors have tried.
Henrietta Lacks’s Family Seeks Compensation
Kerry Grens | Feb 15, 2017 | 1 min read
Family members of Lacks, the donor behind the widely used HeLa cell line, are planning to sue Johns Hopkins University.
May the Force Be with You
Ning Wang | Feb 1, 2017 | 10 min read
The dissection of how cells sense and propagate physical forces is leading to exciting new tools and discoveries in mechanobiology and mechanomedicine.
Lipids Take the Lead in Metastasis
Amanda B. Keener | Jan 20, 2017 | 3 min read
Researchers find diverse ways that the molecules can regulate cancer’s spread.
Week in Review: October 17–21
Jef Akst | Oct 20, 2016 | 2 min read
Report finds that pathologist involved in anonymous defamation case committed multiple acts of misconduct; growing eggs from stem cells; neutrophils’ role in metastasis; convergent evolution in birds
Some Human Cancers Exhibit Low-grade Inflammation
Alison F. Takemura | Oct 1, 2016 | 2 min read
NSAIDs reduce this "parainflammation," hinting at how they help lower cancer risk.
Tumor Traps
Kerry Grens | Apr 1, 2016 | 2 min read
After surgery to remove a tumor, neutrophils recruited to the site spit out sticky webs of DNA that aid cancer recurrence.
Cancer's Vanguard
Catherine Offord | Apr 1, 2016 | 7 min read
Exosomes are emerging as key players in metastasis.
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