Immunotherapies – treatments that aim to make the body's natural immune system more effective – are becoming more widely used ...

Mechanical properties of cells and tissues play an important role in many physiological processes, including cell adhesion and migration, interaction with extracellular matrix, embryogenesis, wound ...

You might think of cancer as a mass of rogue cells that grow uncontrollably. But cancer is more organized and strategic than ...

Adoptive T cell transfer therapy remains limited by the inability to monitor live tumour cell dynamics during treatment. Here we introduce a real-time, label-free phenotyping system that integrates ...

A UCSF team developed an automated system for seeing and understanding persister cells, the tumor cells that survive cancer ...

Scientists have discovered that a rare “mirror-image” version of the amino acid cysteine can dramatically slow the growth of certain cancers while leaving healthy cells largely untouched. Unlike most ...

Metastasis occurs when cancer cells break away from the original tumor and travel through the bloodstream to form new tumors in other parts of the body. It is the leading cause of cancer-related death ...

A comprehensive multi-cancer study by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has revealed that ...

Cancer cells are remarkably good at adapting to stress. When treatments damage them, they often find new ways to survive, fueling drug resistance and disease progression.

A cancer cell begins to die, and for the first time, a researcher can watch the exact moment it happens. New fluorescent dyes described in two peer-reviewed studies published in spring 2026 are giving ...

Researchers have discovered how cells activate a last-resort DNA repair system when severe damage strikes. When genetic tangles overwhelm normal repair pathways, cells flip on a fast but error-prone ...

For the past 15 years or so, a class of drugs called immune checkpoint inhibitors have been used to treat melanoma – the most dangerous kind of skin cancer. For many patients, they produce remarkable ...