There has been a missing puzzle piece in phase separation and its role in cancer. Now, researchers at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill and the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer ...

Researchers have discovered the key role of the extracellular environment in dictating the ability of mutated cells to induce cancer formation. To form a cancer, cells need to accumulate oncogenic ...

Scientists at Scripps Research, with collaborators in Japan, have discovered how a "poisoned" form of a protein could set off a cascade of events that encourage the growth of some cancers. The ...

Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers and the second leading cause of cancer-related death in men worldwide. However, the mechanisms controlling the early stages of prostate cancer ...

Blood clots form in response to signals from the lungs of cancer patients -- not from other organ sites, as previously thought -- according to a preclinical study. Clots are the second-leading cause ...

In a recent study published in the Trends in Cell Biology journal, researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) reviewed the importance of the circadian rhythm in the formation and ...

Overuse of smartphones can have a variety of side effects — but is brain cancer one of them? "Cell phones are ubiquitous, and concern about the radiation they emit can cause fear of brain tumor ...

I still recall my disappointment one day in 2015. I received the tumor DNA sequencing results for one of my patients, whose cancer had spread from her lungs to her brain. I saw not a single genetic ...