Physical pressure can stop cancer cells from growing large enough to divide, revealing why squeezed tumors may stall.

An important element in getting blood stem cells to multiply outside the body is to understand which of the approximately 20,000 genes in the human body control their growth. Now a research team at ...

Chronic myeloid leukemia may seem to appear suddenly, but new research shows it begins years before diagnosis with an explosive surge of growth. Scientists tracked how a single genetic accident—the ...

Immunotherapy, which uses programmed immune cells to selectively destroy cancer cells, has transformed cancer treatment. However, cancer cells have developed immune evasion strategies, leading to poor ...

Although many patients with cancer initially respond to targeted therapy, recurrence remains a common challenge. This recurrence is increasingly attributed to the presence of a rare subset of cells, ...

For years, one of the most powerful weapons against certain blood cancers, called CAR-T therapy, has required an elaborate process: Doctors extract a patient’s immune cells, ship them to a specialized ...

Seeing a trend in increased cancer deaths in the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, cancer biologists Julio Aguirre-Ghiso at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and James DeGregori at the ...