Cancer cells possess a remarkable quality called plasticity. This means they can change their form. This ability helps them survive and spread. Cancer cells act like young cells. They can adapt to ...

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

Researchers at NYU Langone Health propose a model that could explain how cancer cells adapt to environmental stress, an approach that may lead to new therapies. Published online April 15 as the cover ...

Although those studies did not focus on metastatic cancer, Morrison sees a connection. “The reality is that at certain key phases of the evolution of cancer, the cancer cells are just on the edge of ...

Cancer immunotherapies, including cancer vaccines, harness and amplify the immune system’s natural ability to detect and attack cancer cells. In this illustration, immune T cells (pink) attach to a ...

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

Scientists are looking for answers about how these confounding trips, known as metastases, occur throughout the human body Illustration of a human cancer cell Amber Dance, Knowable Magazine Back in ...