cancer

An unusual drug screen takes advantage of “porcupine-like” structures of cancer cells in 3D organoids.

New experiments suggest the famous tumor-suppressing protein uses viral elements lingering in the genome to get cancerous cells to announce their presence to the immune system.

The relatively new technique for visually detecting chromosomal variants associated with disease risk performs at least as well as more established techniques in two recent studies.

Thanks to administrative shuffling, professor Carl-Wilhelm Vogel remains employed at the University of Hawai‘i despite the removal of his position in the new state budget, but the university’s faculty union says lawmakers might have crossed a legal line.

The Australian biomedical research community is stunned by the announced wind-down of the country’s biggest supplier of mice and rats.

An unfolded protein found in human milk shows promise in early clinical trials to treat bladder cancer.

A clever approach to modifying already existing cancer therapies may be a game changer for treating metastatic breast cancer.

Targeted cancer therapy may jeopardize the effectiveness of subsequent immunotherapy by reducing dendritic cell numbers and activation, according to study of mice and patient samples.

An unexpected and unprecedented finding may lead to improved cancer therapies.

After controlling for high levels of bacterial contamination in their lab and reagents, researchers detect microbial genetic material in plasma samples from healthy people and cancer patients.

Moderna’s, Pfizer’s, and Johnson & Johnson’s shots all offered protection against the virus regardless of cancer type, although slightly less so in people with blood cancer.

The color morph’s bright yellow hue and its propensity for skin tumors both likely stem from a gene implicated in a dangerous form of human skin cancer, suggesting the animals could make an ideal model for studying the disease.

The Yale School of Medicine cancer researcher doggedly pursued the question of how cancer spreads.

Researchers say evidence of hybridization between leukocytes and cancer indicates that this is a primary means of metastasis. Others disagree.