While we tend to quickly forget having been ill or having received a vaccine, the immune system remembers remarkably well. It ...

Cancer cell DNA doubling — when cells accidentally duplicate all chromosomes without dividing — now has a new risk factor: ...

University of Virginia School of Medicine scientists have revealed how mistakes in the final step of cell division can have ...

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

Researchers may have discovered why cancer cells are able to reproduce endlessly, a finding that could lead to drugs that would attack disease cells directly without harming healthy tissue. Dr. Calvin ...

UH engineers helped develop an mRNA-based strategy that boosts cancer-fighting T cells and, in mouse studies, helped ...

DNA can voyage along intercellular highways called tunneling nanotubes. It’s a phenomenon that could potentially spread tumor ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising dark side to vitamin B2: it may help cancer cells stay alive. The vitamin supports a ...

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, ...

They found that cells for both cancer lines which had been treated with CBD or THC formed fewer and smaller colonies of cells. Though both compounds worked to prevent cancer cells reproducing, ...

Our body fat may turn out to be a secret weapon in our everlasting fight against cancer. A new study released this week suggests that fat cells can be engineered into a treatment that literally ...

In the future, scientists could use drugs made from cannabis to fight ovarian cancer. A team of scientists testing the effects of two chemical compounds sourced from cannabis on ovarian cancer cells ...