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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have discovered that a rare “mirror-image” version of the amino acid cysteine can dramatically slow the growth of certain cancers while leaving healthy cells largely untouched. Unlike most ...

So what makes heart cancer so rare? The answer lies in the special characteristics that make the heart different from other organs in your body. Studies suggest that the heart may also hold clues as ...

Learn more about apoptosis' role in cancer and how finding the best animal model to test cancer drugs may lead us to cows. To stay healthy and eliminate accumulated genetic errors, our bodies ...

Researchers have built DNA-based nanodevices that can identify cancer cells, latch onto them, and deliver drugs or gene-silencing molecules directly into the cell interior. The work, spread across ...

A counterintuitive discovery published today is reshaping how scientists think about one of cancer's most common genomic events: when a cell accidentally duplicates its entire DNA supply and fails to ...