Image of the Day, cancer

Researchers use a cutting-edge technique to map the blood vessels of brain tumors as patients are awake during surgery with the hope of reducing damage to adjacent tissues.

A video chronicles the course of disease research and prompts questions about where scientists may focus their studies in the future.

Normal hair growth can lead to infection during cancer treatment.

A deep neural network can help determine how likely cancer cells are to metastasize.

Three-dimensional tissue cultures grown from cancer patients’ own tumors can predict responses to the drug irinotecan.

Curbing the growth of harmful bacteria in mouse microbiomes reduces the animals’ incidence of inflammation-related colorectal cancer.

An injectable biomaterial calls cancer drugs to tumor sites in mice.

A virtual exhibition of C.R. Percival’s slides reveals the natural world up close.

A human breast cancer cell divides as it moves through surrounding blood vessel cells in vitro.

Human lung cancer cells can form an invasive pack that coordinates its movement during metastasis.  

Pancreatic cells associated with cancer resemble celestial bodies as revealed by microscopy.

Autophagy may keep cell division in check to help protect against cancer-causing DNA damage.

Researchers hacked the genetic machinery of E. coli to make them glow and identify proteins linked to cancer.

A deep learning program can identify cells with higher metastatic potential based on the way they look and move.

Researchers discover that a layer of human breast tissue is not one but two distinct cell types.  

3-D balls of cells can be used to screen for potential cancer drugs.

Selected rare-disease Images of the Day from the-scientist.com