Malignant melanoma is one of the most dangerous forms of cancer. Around half of melanomas and about 7% of all other cancers ...

A major pillar of cancer immunotherapy involves stimulating T cells, the specialized killers of the immune system, to attack ...

Several types of cancer are triggered by mutations in a protein called BRAF. Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI ...

Cancer drug resistance is the devastating reason that treatments fail and cancers metastasize, spreading to distant sites seeding new resistant tumors elsewhere in the body. Combating the problem has ...

A microscope image of lung cancer cells (purple) containing the activated form of a metabolic enzyme called GUK1 (brown) that supports cancer growth. Researchers discovered the importance of an enzyme ...

Curcumin, berberine and other plant-derived compounds have long attracted scientific interest because of their anti-inflammatory and anticancer properties. A new study by researchers from Wroclaw ...

Researchers have uncovered a key mechanism that helps aging cells stop dividing before they can become cancerous, identifying the DNA damage sensor ATM as the central player in this process. Credit: ...

Scientists uncover an enzyme that boosts cancer cell metabolism to fuel growth. The enzyme, GUK1, supports metabolism in cancer cells to help tumors grow. Lung cancer is a particularly challenging ...