Exercise for Cancer

Strategies to trick, manipulate, and direct the evolution of tumors

Researchers are engineering microbes to deliver therapeutics specifically to tumors, maximizing the treatments’ efficacy while minimizing side effects.

A look at the molecular processes that may feed into the tumor-fighting effects of physical activity

Researchers use a new way to deliver CRISPR/Cas9 to tumors in mice, wiping out the cancer.

A microfluidic device creates a single hole in each cell to allow efficient DNA entry without compromising viability.

A recent book outlines fossil evidence supporting the controversial hypothesis.

Advances in imaging technology over the last century have allowed increasingly sophisticated glimpses into the ancient processes of mummification.

Spurred by family tragedy, the medical physicist wants to treat cancer in a new way.

Through his studies on cancer-causing viruses, the University of California, Los Angeles, professor has helped develop lifesaving treatments.

Researchers find connective tissue has a crucial role to play in whether cancer cells metastasize.

By infecting glioblastoma cells but not healthy brain tissue, some form of the virus could serve a therapeutic purpose.

Gene editing can knock out genes crucial to cervical tumor cells’ survival, researchers report.

Researchers uncover the “body-snatching” tactics of fungi that flourish immediately after wildfires.

Injecting the seasonal flu vaccine directly into clumps of malignant cells recruits immune cells to confront the cancer.

A study finds similarities between cells that heal wounds and those that lead deadly cancerous invasions.

Researchers could one day use the method to deliver antibiotics to topical wounds infected by hard-to-treat masses of bacteria.

There’s a new cell-based cancer immunotherapy on the block.

Only an equal mixture of THC and CBD has been adequately tested, and it failed to alleviate pain in cancer patients.

Ben Franklin was right. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Meet some of the people featured in the April 2020 issue of The Scientist.

Take a break from the bench to puzzle and peruse.

A device for piercing individual holes in cell membranes allows vector-free DNA delivery while maintaining cell viability.