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 ...

New findings show that the stage of normal cell development at which B cells transform into leukemic cells impacts treatment outcomes for pediatric patients with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B ...

The story of the princess and the pea evokes an image of a highly sensitive royal young woman so refined, she can sense a pea under a stack of mattresses. When it comes to human biology, it also takes ...

Cancer cells have fewer heavy hydrogen atoms in their lipids as compared to healthy cells. The finding unearths a potential geochemical tool for cancer diagnosis in the future. As the daughter of a ...

Cancer cells act like young cells. They can adapt to different body parts. They can also resist drug treatments. But what if this very quality could be used against them? Scientists are exploring this ...

Scientists have found a new way to stop cancer growth without damaging healthy cells. Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and Vividion Therapeutics discovered a compound that blocks the ...

A study initiated by a University of Arizona Comprehensive Cancer Center physician-scientist defined for the first time how loss of the Y chromosome in male immune cells negatively affects immune ...

Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy—CAR T for short—has been a major advance in treating blood cancers like leukemia and ...

On February 13, Allogene Therapeutics published new long-term follow-up data on cemacabtagene ansegedleucel, showing the investigative allogeneic chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy ...

A molecule praised for slowing aging may also give cancer cells exactly what they need to grow.