Cancer cells possess a remarkable quality called plasticity. This means they can change their form. This ability helps them survive and spread. Cancer cells act like young cells. They can adapt to ...

Cells aren’t as passive as scientists once thought—they actively create internal currents to move proteins quickly and ...

A cancer drug target already being investigated in clinical trials turns out to be doing something even more consequential ...

CAR-T cell therapy, originally developed for cancer, is showing ever more promise as a treatment for autoimmune diseases.

A team of researchers has constructed the most detailed single-cell map of the adult human prostate to date, cataloging more ...

Michael Bishop, who has died aged 90, shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Harold Varmus for proving ...

A precision cancer strategy that selectively kills tumour cells while leaving healthy tissue intact may be within reach for the majority of colorectal cancer patients, according to new research ...

The chemotherapy drug azacitidine, a frontline treatment for blood cancers such as myelodysplastic syndromes and acute ...