Our immune systems have the thankless jobs of guarding us from bacterial and viral invaders and preventing cancer development. Most of the time, we do not notice this hard work because the invaders ...

The first clinical trial to test the tumour-fighting power of a stem-cell-like class of long-lived immune cells suggests that ...

A simple blood test can reveal the geographic relationships among healthy cells surrounding a cancerous tumor, researchers at ...

Scientists have discovered that a rare “mirror-image” version of the amino acid cysteine can dramatically slow the growth of certain cancers while leaving healthy cells largely untouched. Unlike most ...

A new study led by NYU Langone Health researchers found that cancer cells are better able to resist treatments when they have ...

A new study led by NYU Langone Health researchers has found that cancer cells are better able to resist treatments when they ...

A CAR-T therapy used to treat cancer managed to reset the immune system and bring three autoimmune diseases into remission in ...

Researchers found a new way to kill harmful “zombie” cells that linger after chemotherapy and help cancers become more ...

A hallmark of cancerous cells is an abnormal number of chromosomes or chromosome arms, known as aneuploidy. While aneuploidy is detrimental to regular cells, it occurs in as many as 90% of tumors. How ...

A newly identified weakness in “zombie” cells may open the door to more precise cancer treatments by turning their own ...