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 ...

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 ...

Telomere damage drives T cell exhaustion. Antioxidants restored their cancer-fighting strength in mice. Tumor environments place heavy stress on immune cells that fight cancer. Limited oxygen, ...

Due to the small size and height of the Eva1 molecule, Eva1CAR-T cells can form more effective immune synapses—contact zones between an immune cell and its target tumor cells. The formation of robust ...

Cancer can grow slowly or appear suddenly. It happens when cells stop following normal instructions and start behaving badly. For decades, doctors focused on killing these cells using chemotherapy or ...

Acetyl-CoA is essential to cell function, and research shows that cancer cells can use different nutrients and different paths to produce it.

Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) refer to cancer cells that have broken off from a primary tumor. These tumor cells can travel through the blood in the circulatory system and lodge themselves in other ...

New research from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute shows that a new class of drug results in cell death in cancers, such as small cell lung cancer, with a disabled quality control cell cycle checkpoint ...