Researchers have found a way to supercharge natural killer cells, powerful immune cells that can attack cancer, so they can ...

A THC-treated tumor organoid. (Martínez-Illescas et al., Communications Biology, 2026) Cancer cells are proving trickier than ...

Andrea Califano began his career as a physicist. But that's not why he's now calling cancer a quantum disease. "We're really ...

People who live to 110 years and older have large populations of a rare type of immune cell that can kill cancer 1, finds a ...

The immune system possesses legions of T cells that, if primed, could hunt down and destroy tumors. Now, a UC San Francisco ...

Scientists found centromere DNA sitting at telomeres in ALT cancers, a merger of chromosome regions once thought impossible.` ...

By using mRNA molecules to “remodel” parts of the immune system, researchers generated T cells that can slow the growth of ...

The human immune system has specialized cells called CD4 cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CD4 CTLs), which have been shown to kill ...

When a cell gets ready to divide, it shuts down its gene-reading machinery almost entirely. For decades, the mechanism behind ...

Cancer cells work together to source nutrients from their environment -- a cooperative process that was previously overlooked by scientists but may be a promising target for treating cancer. Cancer ...

Part of the challenge is the environment in which cancer cells exist. Inside the body, tumors are constantly bathed in ...