Scientists at KAIST have found a way to turn a tumor’s own immune cells into powerful cancer fighters—right inside the body.

For years, it has been a mainstay of treatment to stop the spread of many cancers. But is the removal of lymph nodes – tiny, bean-shaped nodules that filter waste and bacteria – really the best way to ...

WUHAN, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- A collaborative team of Chinese and U.S. scientists has identified a specific group of highly adaptable tumor cells that act as a central hub driving lung cancer progression ...

Scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have developed an experimental immunotherapy that takes an ...

A new cancer therapy wakes up immune cells inside tumors and turns them against cancer.

Hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) are activated to heal the liver when it has a lesion (such as fibrosis or fatty liver); their function is to protect the liver by producing an extracellular matrix ...

For the first time, real-time imaging tracks what happens to cancer cells arriving in the brain, identifying a new strategy to prevent brain tumors. Metastasis occurs when cancer cells break away from ...

Scientists have demonstrated a dependable method to generate large numbers of helper T cells from stem cells, removing a long-standing obstacle that has limited immune-based cancer treatments. The ...

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