Cancer cells are relentless in their quest to grow and divide, often rewiring their metabolism and modifying RNA to stay one ...

The story of the princess and the pea evokes an image of a highly sensitive royal young woman so refined, she can sense a pea ...

Our immune systems have the thankless jobs of guarding us from bacterial and viral invaders and preventing cancer development. Most of the time, we do not notice this hard work because the invaders ...

In the cancer type multiple myeloma, the malignant cells differ significantly from normal cells regarding the layer of ...

Circulating tumor cells allow researchers to detect cancer early, provide an accurate prognosis, monitor progression, and ...

Pancreatic cancer is one of the most aggressive cancer types. A new study from Karolinska Institutet, in collaboration with ...

For decades, scientists have known that bacteria can exchange genetic material, in a process called horizontal gene transfer.

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 ...

Cancer can grow slowly or appear suddenly. It happens when cells stop following normal instructions and start behaving badly. For decades, doctors focused on killing these cells using chemotherapy or ...