Researchers have tested a gene-edited stem cell transplant designed to shield healthy blood-forming cells from powerful ...
A new study led by NYU Langone Health researchers found that cancer cells are better able to resist treatments when they have an abnormal number of chromosomes, which are DNA strands wound up ...
A small number of cancer cells with the ability to change their identities and behaviors appear to be a key driver of cancer progression and its ability to evolve resistance to treatment. Targeting ...
Chemotherapy drugs like doxorubicin and etoposide work by snapping a cancer cell’s DNA in two. The breaks are supposed to be ...
Researchers found a new way to kill harmful “zombie” cells that linger after chemotherapy and help cancers become more ...
Cancer cells travel through the blood like restless seeds, searching for places to take root. Yet one organ they almost never ...
A newly identified weakness in “zombie” cells may open the door to more precise cancer treatments by turning their own survival strategy against them.
Glioblastoma kills most patients within 15 months of diagnosis. It is the most aggressive brain cancer in young adults, and ...
Circulating tumor cells were first described in 1869 by Thomas Ashworth, an Australian pathologist who observed them in a peripheral blood sample taken from a patient with metastatic cancer. 1 They ...