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 ...

The first clinical trial to test the tumour-fighting power of a stem-cell-like class of long-lived immune cells suggests that ...

A newly identified weakness in “zombie” cells may open the door to more precise cancer treatments by turning their own ...

A simple blood test can reveal the geographic relationships among healthy cells surrounding a cancerous tumor, researchers at ...

The results, published May 5 in Nature Genetics, offer a new way to understand the molecular roots of cancer — an especially ...

Scientists have uncovered an unexpected way cells can generate cancer-driving proteins—by cutting RNA into shorter, ...

A newly discovered molecule disrupts cancer cells’ ability to repair DNA by triggering the breakdown of key proteins. Cancer cells can survive by repairing damage to their DNA—even damage that would ...

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and the Telomere Clinic at Johns Hopkins have identified a genetic ...

We need investment in precision medicine technologies to start programming cancer against itself, writes Cyriac Roeding.