Cancer treatment often sounds distant and technical, so stories about it can feel hard to enter. Yet, everyday curiosity ...

Researchers have created tiny metal-based particles that push cancer cells over the edge while leaving healthy cells mostly unharmed. The particles work by increasing internal stress in cancer cells ...

University of Iowa-led study has revealed the unexpected structure adopted by the DNA repair protein RAD52 as it binds and protects replicating DNA in dividing cells. A University of Iowa-led study ...

Scientists have discovered that T cell receptors activate through a hidden spring-like motion that had never been seen before. This breakthrough may help explain why immunotherapy works for some ...

Cancer cells have an insatiable appetite for energy as they multiply more rapidly than normal cells. Greedy cancer cells hijack various cellular functions to find and exploit energy and other ...

The story of a cancer-fighting molecule that took half a century to build is really a story about how slow, stubborn ...

A team at RMIT University in Melbourne say that extremely small metal particles – which they dub ‘nanodots’ – could be ...

A redesigned immune-activating cancer drug has produced striking early results in a small clinical trial, shrinking tumors ...

Disrupted sleep schedules may change breast tissue and immune function, helping aggressive breast cancer grow faster.