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Recent insights, such as the recognition that disseminated cancer cells can lie dormant for years before seeding secondary tumors, suggest novel strategies for fighting metastatic disease.

As with the evolution of astronomy, new insights in biology beckon just beyond our conceptual and observational reach.

From his student days in veterinary medicine in Ethiopia to running a lab on metastasis at MD Anderson Cancer Center, Debeb has a passion for understanding how living things work.

One hundred years after its invention, BCG has stood the test of time as a vaccine against tuberculosis.

While machine learning could improve detection of tumors at their earliest stages, it also risks identifying malignancies that would never cause the patient any harm.

Altered gut microbiome composition in obese mice and human patients is linked with severity of disease after bone marrow transplantation, a study found.

The largest study of its kind identifies single nucleotide polymorphisms with disparate effects on men’s and women’s susceptibility to conditions such as bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

A study of human populations around the world detects differing rates of horizontal gene transfer in the microbiome depending on what kind of society those people live in.

The researchers say these findings challenge dogma in the field, which has given the liver all credit for metabolizing alcohol.

Researchers turned white blood cells called neutrophils into drug-smuggling “neutrobots,” which penetrated the blood-brain barrier to treat brain cancer in mice.

A bipartisan bill aims to increase the National Science Foundation’s budget over the next five years and form a new technology directorate.

Manipulating the activity of neurons active during training had similar effects on the mice’s behavior.