Physical pressure can stop cancer cells from growing large enough to divide, revealing why squeezed tumors may stall.

What makes cancer an especially insidious disease is its ability to evade your own body’s defenses. Tumors have a host of ...

Tumours have developed many strategies and tricks to gain advantages in the body. Led by cell biology professor Sabine Werner, researchers at ETH Zurich have now discovered another surprising trick ...

Cancer cells provide healthy neighboring cells with additional mitochondria to put them to work. This has been demonstrated by researchers at ETH Zurich in a new study. In this way, cancer is ...

Natural killer cells are supposed to be the immune system’s first responders against cancer. They don’t need to be trained on ...

For the past 15 years or so, a class of drugs called immune checkpoint inhibitors have been used to treat melanoma – the most ...

• BTK inhibitors are a type of targeted therapy for mantle cell lymphoma that works by blocking a specific enzyme, BTK, which is crucial for the cancer cells’ survival and spread. This interference ...

DNA can voyage along intercellular highways called tunneling nanotubes. It’s a phenomenon that could potentially spread tumor ...

Since scientists first discovered that human immune cells could be modified to become cancer-fighting agents, they’ve been trying to engineer a cell that’s effective against solid tumors, which ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising dark side to vitamin B2: it may help cancer cells stay alive. The vitamin supports a ...

A cell copies all six billion letters of its DNA, gears up to split, and then simply… doesn’t. It sits there, swollen with ...