A small number of cancer cells with the ability to change their identities and behaviors appear to be a key driver of cancer ...

New research reveals that certain brain tumors may originate silently within normal brain cells long before a tumor forms.

A Northwestern Medicine-led study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation has uncovered why older individuals with specific genetic mutations face a heightened risk of developing serious ...

Pancreatic cancer may evade the immune system not by accident but by actively switching off internal danger signals through ...

Of all the types of breast cancer, triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is the most aggressive and lacks specific therapies.

Precision DNA editing gene therapy achieves deep remissions in aggressive leukemia previously considered incurable.

Borrowing a cancer cell’s disguise, scientists shielded insulin-producing cells from attack by the immune system, a breakthrough that could pave the way for targeted type 1 diabetes treatments without ...

An implantable scaffold and magnetic probes capture circulating tumor cells directly in the bloodstream, eliminating over 90% ...