When a cancer cell leaves the original tumor to spread to a new, faraway location, it first has to survive what most cells ...

“If someone can do it, you can do it.” These dying words, spoken 20 years ago by science technician Kin San Lee to his colleagues, Dr Himanshu Brahmbhatt and Dr Jennifer MacDiarmid, were the catalyst ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising way tumors turn the immune system to their advantage. Researchers at the University of Geneva found that neutrophils—normally frontline defenders against ...

MIT and Harvard scientists have designed an advanced type of immune cell called a CAR-NK cell that can destroy cancer while avoiding attack from the body’s own immune defenses. This innovation could ...

Metastasis occurs when cancer cells spread to other organs and escape elimination by the immune system. Analysis reveals that these cells resist killing by immune cells by harnessing stress-hormone ...

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

A protein involved with cell death can be manipulated to slow or reverse tumor growth, a pair of new studies in mice found. A colorized three dimensional micrographic scan of a melanoma cell. Recent ...

Cancer treatment has come a long way, but many of today’s therapies still come with steep costs: not just financial, but physical and emotional too. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy remain vital tools, ...

CAR-T cells must overcome cancer’s many defenses in order to mount an effective attack. Lulu Perez, CC BY-SA You might think of cancer as a mass of rogue cells that grow uncontrollably. But cancer is ...