Cancer cells that accumulate extra copies of their entire chromosome set can start behaving like immune cells, swallowing ...

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 ...

Chemotherapy kills cancer cells, but it also leaves behind something troubling: damaged cells that stop dividing yet refuse ...

Scientists at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) and their colleagues are shedding new light on a tumor's earliest ...

Some blood cancers move with eerie patience. A patient can feel well for years, their blood counts looking steady, their ...

Rushika M. Perera, the Deborah Cowan Professor and vice chair of the Department of Anatomy, and chief scientific officer of ...

A newly proposed model suggests cancer cells may resist treatment not just through genetic mutations, but by dynamically ...

A new set of drugs exploit a recently revealed weakness in "zombie-like"—or senescent—cells that could lead to new treatments ...

New research shows how certain orphan noncoding RNA — oncRNA — can be predictable enough to be a ‘bar code’ identifying ...