A gastrointestinal oncologist told Newsweek that the early-stage findings are a “major step forward” in targeting colon ...

Researchers at Mayo Clinic have uncovered a previously hidden step in how the immune system prepares to fight cancer, a ...

Immunotherapies – treatments that aim to make the body's natural immune system more effective – are becoming more widely used ...

Modular nanorobot from University of Basel cut cancer cell viability to 16% by synthesizing drugs directly on cell surfaces ...

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, ...

Loss of GATA6—a transcription factor that controls which genes are turned on or off—can reprogram colorectal cancer cells ...

Immunotherapies are a promising approach in the fight against cancer. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a lab-on-a-chip system called CellTrap. It makes it ...

Since scientists first discovered that human immune cells could be modified to become cancer-fighting agents, they’ve been trying to engineer a cell that’s effective against solid tumors, which ...

Cancer cells can brainwash their neighbors. Like the CIA deploying secret agents to turn an enemy, tumors use a similar strategy to manipulate nearby cells. The tumors’ agents are mitochondria, the ...