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Researchers disentangle how adipocytes communicate with prostate tumors in mice.

The molecular processes that lead males to be more susceptible to the disease are only beginning to come to light.

Mustard gas blistered men’s bodies on the battlefield, but paved the way for cancer-fighting drugs.

A long way into the quest to vanquish cancer, our ears strain to hear the words, “Cancer is cured”—a yearning that can cloud our judgment.

Researchers found that allegedly noncoding genetic material carries the instructions for many peptides that may help harness the immune system to fight cancer.

So far, six animal species are known to carry transmissible, “parasitic” forms of cancer, but researchers are still mystified as to how cancer can become infectious.

The technology has wowed the field by all but obliterating some patients’ blood cancers, but solid malignancies present new challenges.

Advances in the functional characterization of newly discovered microproteins hint at diverse roles in health and disease.

A survey reveals the disease has decimated populations in Central and South America and tropical Australia and contributed to the extinction of 90 species.

A drive for revenue is damaging basic science.

Two independent studies in rats find grid cells, which form the brain’s map, are more plastic than thought and are subject to the influence of reward.

A number of rare diseases show unique epigenetic patterns across the genome, a feature researchers have now exploited to build a diagnostic tool.