What makes cancer an especially insidious disease is its ability to evade your own body’s defenses. Tumors have a host of ...

For the past 15 years or so, a class of drugs called immune checkpoint inhibitors have been used to treat melanoma – the most ...

Scientists at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research have captured, for the first time, 'housekeeping' immune cells ...

Researchers found that lowering MHC I can expose cancerous or foreign cells to CD4+ T cell attack, reshaping assumptions ...

One of the key areas of scientific study in recent times includes the use of stem cell research in space. Scientists are ...

Our body receives and processes a vast number of signals. Chemical signals serve as guidance cues and ensure, for example, ...

The video I am watching feels like a scene from a horror movie. At the centre of the screen is a blood-red mass – in reality, a massively magnified pancreatic tumour, vividly dyed as if to highlight ...

Megan Sweet slices tumors. A normal day in the lab finds the Virginia Tech graduate student with hands deep inside a refrigerated metal box, pulling a mounted mouse-grown tumor incrementally closer to ...

Scientists at UCLA have developed an "off-the-shelf" cell-based immunotherapy that was able to track down and kill pancreatic cancer cells even after they had spread to other organs. In a mouse study, ...

Discover how exercise-conditioned serum, blood taken after physical activity, shows promise in inhibiting cancer cell growth ...

In a recent study, Stevens researchers have shown how colorectal cancers can evolve from mature intestinal cells that revert to stem cells. These findings explain why colorectal cancers are so ...

Cancer cells are known for their “glutamine addiction,” but many can escape this weakness by switching to alternative fuels. Researchers found that vitamin B7 acts like a metabolic “license,” enabling ...