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Infographic showing transposable elements in cancer
Infographic: Transposable elements in cancer
Jumping genes are let loose in cancerous cells, with multiple effects on cell health.
Infographic: Transposable elements in cancer
Infographic: Transposable elements in cancer

Jumping genes are let loose in cancerous cells, with multiple effects on cell health.

Jumping genes are let loose in cancerous cells, with multiple effects on cell health.

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Infographic: A Brain Implant Stops Tumor Growth in Rats
Holly Barker, PhD | Dec 12, 2022 | 1 min read
The new, implantable device converts ultrasound waves into electrical energy inside the brain, interfering with tumor cell division.
Mind the Graph
Seeing Science: How to Visually Explain Complex Concepts
The Scientist and Mind the Graph | Sep 16, 2022 | 4 min read
Scientists turn to an easy, plug-and-play platform to visually translate their work.
Infographic showing how bursting micronuclei promote cancer
Infographic: Chromosome Errors Cause Micronuclei and Drive Cancer
Samuel F. Bakhoum | Mar 1, 2022 | 2 min read
When micronuclei rupture, chromosomes break, recombine, and form circles, causing inflammation and promoting carcinogenic growth.
Infographic: How Immunotherapy Could Boost Stem-Like T Cells
Daniel E. Speiser and Werner Held | Jul 13, 2020 | 3 min read
Cancer therapies could potentially be more effective if their development took into account the cells that give rise to tumor-fighting cells.
Infographic: Exercise’s Anticancer Mechanisms
Bente Klarlund Pedersen | Apr 1, 2020 | 2 min read
A look at the molecular processes that may feed into the tumor-fighting effects of physical activity
Infographic: CRISPR’d Cancer
Rachael Moeller Gorman | Apr 1, 2020 | 1 min read
Researchers use a new way to deliver CRISPR/Cas9 to tumors in mice, wiping out the cancer.
Infographic: How NETs Work
Borko Amulic and Gabriel Sollberger | Oct 1, 2019 | 3 min read
While neutrophil extracellular traps help guard the body from infection, they also can contribute to a range of diseases.
brain tissue
Infographic: A 3-D Printed Brain Tumor
Jef Akst | Jul 15, 2019 | 1 min read
How researchers create a glioblastoma on a chip that can predict patients’ response to treatments
personalized vaccines
Infographic: Neoantigen Prediction for Personalized Vaccine Design
Jasreet Hundal and Elaine R. Mardis | Jul 15, 2019 | 3 min read
See how a computational pipeline uses next-generation sequencing data to identify genetic alterations that produce cancer-specific antigens.
removing chemotherapy drugs infographic
Infographic: Medication Mop-Up
Ruth Williams | Apr 1, 2019 | 1 min read
Researchers have developed a prototype device to filter excess chemotherapy medication from the bloodstream.
fat tissue can help cancer cells proliferate metastasize
Infographic: How Fat Cells Influence Tumor Growth
Catherine Offord | Apr 1, 2019 | 1 min read
Mice that lack p62 in their fat cells grow more tumors than animals that have a functioning version of the protein.
The Scientist’s Most Stunning Infographics of 2018
Jef Akst | Dec 21, 2018 | 2 min read
From cellular self-digestion to the effects of exercise on the brain, our features editor picks her favorite art custom-made for the magazine.
Infographic: Inside Melanoma Invasion
Catherine Offord | Mar 31, 2017 | 1 min read
See what cytokine activity and cellular starvation have to do with cancer metastasis.
Infographic: Antibody Cancer Therapy
Ruth Williams | Mar 31, 2017 | 1 min read
An experimental technique removes T cells that aid in vitro tumor growth.
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