Cancer

Tumors must evade the immune system to grow and spread, causing cancer. One of the ways tumor cells hide is by displaying proteins that tell [...]

Physicians who treat patients with cancer of the central nervous system got some new information that may help their patients with lymphoma. The findings were [...]

When it comes to the immune system, attention seems to focus on its protection. But equally important is how the unleashed immune response becomes a [...]

Building on the basic science of how cells function, researchers from Mayo Clinic and the University of Arkansas for Medical Scientists present a new tool [...]

Experimental Treatment Pivots in Record Time At the beginning of 2020, everyone in research and medicine who could pivot to focus on COVID-19 did. Scientists and [...]

Using a mouse model of the blood cancer multiple myeloma, scientists at Mayo Clinic in Arizona are once again providing insight that could improve care [...]

February 10, 2021 Patients and their physicians have quite a few treatment options to sort through to manage hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common form of liver [...]

Update, March 11, 2021: This post from January 25, 2021 was updated to include foundational work recently published by Frontiers in Oncology. In cell [...]

While a typo in a letter or email is a problem it's not a big one, usually. But when that typo is in genetic code, [...]

Glioblastoma is an aggressive brain tumor that is difficult to treat.  Its cells are skilled migrators. Their knack for infiltration makes it nearly impossible for [...]