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The research enterprise surrounding cancer spreads and changes as it explores multiple facets of the complex disease.

The artificially motorized cells may one day help fight cancers in the female reproductive tract.

Social insects kill infected individuals for the benefit of the colony—and now a study has shown how they know who’s sick.

Mutations in the TP53 gene appear to influence the prognosis and likelihood of future cancers in pediatric leukemia patients.

In addition to programs geared towards transforming biologists into bioinformaticians, students need more raw material available for their education.

In the presence of cytosolic DNA, cancer cells activate antiviral pathways that disguise them as immune cells.

Mice treated with an immunostimulant had better outcomes when researchers blocked the expression of TNFR2, a compound that helps tumors evade immune attack.

Mice with cancer whose KRAS proteins couldn’t link together had much better survival outcomes than those whose oncogenic mutant paired with wild-type KRAS.

Motivated by his father’s cancer diagnosis, the Francis Crick Institute cancer geneticist has been revealing the ways tumors evolve and why they are so difficult to treat.

The University of Minnesota researcher is on the front lines in the fight against the disease.

William Halsted’s approach to mastectomy took the medical world by storm at the turn of the last century.

A controversial hypothesis suggests that jellyfish may one day rule the oceans, and Mola mola may tell us if we are approaching a tipping point.