Among the most promising tools of cancer therapy, engineered immune cells known as chimeric antigen-receptor (CAR) T cells have already transformed the treatment of blood cancers. Yet, despite their ...

A protein made by stressed cancer cells helps lung and pancreatic tumors evade the immune system, a new study shows.

Scientists have identified a mirror-image form of the amino acid cysteine that selectively slows the growth of certain ...

Researchers expanded millions of cancer-targeting NK cells from a single donor, improving manufacturing for future therapies.

Scientists in China have unveiled a breakthrough way to mass-produce powerful cancer-fighting immune cells in the lab. By ...

In a new study published in the journal Nature Genetics, Haolong Li, PhD, a researcher at Fred Hutch Cancer Center, and colleagues developed a way to monitor androgen receptor levels inside living ...

A research team investigating the use of the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes against colorectal cancer has discovered a way ...

Scientists have identified a hidden barrier that prevents immunotherapy from working against a rare liver cancer. Immunotherapy, which activates the body’s own immune system to kill cancer cells, has ...

Florida announced last fall that the state plans to fund research to study the drug as a potential cancer treatment.

A feature of pancreatic cancer cells' surroundings determines whether they grow fast or become resistant to chemotherapy, a new study shows. The ability of these cancer cells to adapt quickly and ...

A scientist whose wife has incurable cancer has transformed microscope images of breast cancer cells into large-scale ...

The Jersey Shore alum shared that after years of receiving abnormal pap smear results—which led to closer monitoring by her physicians—further testing through a colposcopy and biopsy revealed her ...