Senescent fibroblasts are aging cells in connective tissue that no longer divide and protect against tumor development. Yet, these same cells can promote cancer growth in a laboratory setting. Until ...

A new study by the Garvan Institute of Medical Research has uncovered a hidden mechanism explaining why breast cancer can return many years after successful treatment. Published in Nature ...

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

Being overweight or obese has long been linked to a greater risk of developing or dying from breast cancer. New research suggests a reason: Certain breast cancer tumors may feed on neighboring fat ...

Cancer is caused by faulty genes, but what also shapes a cancer cell's behavior is how a gene's instructions are trimmed and rearranged before they are turned into the proteins that keep a cell alive.

Oncologists have discovered that lung cancer cells can change their identity to resist treatment. Research published in ...

Cancer always seems to break the rules — defying normal biology and finding new ways to survive, grow, and spread. That ability fascinated Rushika M. Perera, PhD, when she was younger. It’s what ...

Left: In normal gastric tissue, gastric epithelial cells rely on growth signals provided by the surrounding microenvironment. In particular, WNT signals — such as WNT2 secreted by neighboring cells — ...

Published online Feb. 16 in the journal Cell, the new work shows that a main factor determining whether pancreatic cancer cells increase autophagy levels is their ability to detect the extracellular ...

Researchers found that smaller cancer cells with doubled DNA often behaved more aggressively than larger ones.

Scientists are studying how stem cells grow in space in the hope of developing better treatments for cancer and other serious diseases. Research carried out aboard the International Space Station (ISS ...

Gastric (stomach) cancer remains one of the most common and deadly cancers in East Asia, including Korea. Yet despite its high prevalence, it has received far less molecular attention than colorectal ...