This study investigates the concentration-dependent cytotoxicity of aluminum-doped zinc oxide nanoparticles on breast cancer (MDA-MB-231) and normal mammary epithelial cells (MCF-10 A). Pure and ...

Mechanical properties of cells and tissues play an important role in many physiological processes, including cell adhesion and migration, interaction with extracellular matrix, embryogenesis, wound ...

A gastrointestinal oncologist told Newsweek that the early-stage findings are a “major step forward” in targeting colon ...

A new single-cell profiling technique has mapped pre-malignant gene mutations and their effects in solid tissues for the first time, in a study led by investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine and the ...

Loss of GATA6—a transcription factor that controls which genes are turned on or off—can reprogram colorectal cancer cells ...

IN THE POPULAR imagination, cancer starts with a mutation in the DNA of a normal cell. That mutation allows the cell to multiply uncontrollably, circumventing the body’s usual quality-control checks.

Researchers have discovered how cells activate a last-resort DNA repair system when severe damage strikes. When genetic tangles overwhelm normal repair pathways, cells flip on a fast but error-prone ...

Immunotherapies – treatments that aim to make the body's natural immune system more effective – are becoming more widely used ...

A comprehensive multi-cancer study by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has revealed that ...