Cancer can grow slowly or appear suddenly. It happens when cells stop following normal instructions and start behaving badly. For decades, doctors focused on killing these cells using chemotherapy or ...

Ever since we started holding our cell phones up to our ears, there have been concerns that the radio waves they emit could cause cancer. While this makes sense in a Black Mirror kind of way—and some ...

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.

A research team has discovered a previously unknown mechanism that could explain why many patients with aggressive B-cell lymphoma do not respond to CAR-T cell therapy in the long term. The results of ...

The cells in Ling He’s lab dish looked nothing like cancer cells. Which was odd, because they had been extracted from the tumours of people with an aggressive brain cancer called glioblastoma.