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Cancer begins in your cells, which are the building blocks of your body. Normally, your body forms new cells as you need them, replacing old cells that die. Sometimes this process goes wrong. New cells grow even when you don't need them, and old cells don't die when they should. These extra cells can form a mass called a tumor. Tumors can be benign or malignant. Benign tumors aren't cancer while malignant ones are. Cells from malignant tumors can invade nearby tissues. They can also break away and spread to other parts of the body.

Clinician-Led Approach Could Give Doctors a Control Dial for Cell Therapies

A clinician-led research team has developed a gene-editing platform that could give doctors more control over cell therapies, making them more practical for patients with complex immune conditions.

20 Oct 2026

Study Details Genetic Divergence Between Astrocytomas and Oligodendrogliomas

Treatment-resistant brain cancers develop different mutations as they become more aggressive, according to new research from Yale School of Medicine.

20 Oct 2026

Dendritic Cell STING Activation Licenses Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte Priming

Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have transformed cancer care, yet only a subset of patients benefit. A major barrier is tumor microenvironment (TME) heterogeneity: "hot" tumors are enriched with cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) and respond better, while "cold" tumors lack T-cell infiltration or are shielded by immunosuppressive barriers.

20 Oct 2026

Stable Isotope Carbon Tracing Proves Uncoupling Inhibits De Novo Purine Synthesis

Mitochondrial serine catabolic pathway (MSCP), also called serine, glycine, and one-carbon metabolism, is essential for cancer cells to produce amino acids, one-carbon units, and reducing equivalents.

20 Oct 2026

Mayo Clinic Study Advances Detection of Somatic DNA Mutations

Researchers in a Mayo Clinic-led study have shown how to detect a broad range of DNA mutations in noncancerous human tissues and across the genome.

16 Oct 2026

Intestinal Cells Use Signal Rhythms to Determine Cell Growth

A study conducted at the Hubrecht Institute reveals that the intestines use the rhythm of a signal to decide which cells to make.

16 Oct 2026

Machine Learning Tool Pinpoints Crucial Gene Regulation Changes

Changes in our genes affect health risks from heart disease to cancer, but how those genes are turned on and off is just as crucial to health.

16 Oct 2026

Balancing Immune Cells May Unlock Hidden Human Regenerative Potential

In a study of fingertip regeneration, a team led by JAX Senior Research Scientist James Godwin found that some immune cells in mice can attack and kill cells needed to rebuild bone, while a subset of those same immune cells can protect the bone-making cells and allow regeneration to continue.

16 Oct 2026

Novel Molecular Pathway Identified to Combat T-Cell Exhaustion in Cancer

Researchers at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center used a CRISPR screen to identify a key molecular pathway that drives exhaustion in cancer-fighting immune cells, limiting their ability to keep tumors under control.

16 Oct 2026

Cell Division Actively Reshapes Crowded Epithelial Tissue, Study

Every time a tissue grows or renews itself, cells must divide inside an already crowded environment.

16 Oct 2026

Artificial Intelligence Integrates Multi-Omic Data to Predict HPV Lesion Progression

Infection with human papillomavirus (HPV) is extremely common and, in the vast majority of cases, clears up on its own. However, in some people, it persists and can develop into precancerous lesions or even cancer.

16 Oct 2026

Immunometabolic Reprogramming Strategy Addresses Chronic Inflammatory Conditions

Colorectal cancer has become the leading cause of cancer-related death for people under 50. Its most common forms generally aren't treatable, either through conventional means like chemotherapy or newer immunotherapy drugs.

16 Oct 2026

Study Uncovers Sex Specific Coordinated Stem Cell Dynamics in Skin Repair

By filming skin stem cells in living mice over five months, researchers at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, have discovered that in females these cells renew the skin in a more coordinated way than in males.

15 Oct 2026

Rhizosphere Tug-of-War for Iron Drives Plant-Microbe Evolutionary Co-Adaptation

Energy production in our cells, oxygen traveling in our blood, and immune cells fighting infection all depend on iron, an essential mineral that enters the food chain when plants absorb it from soil. But iron is often scarce-likely increasingly so as global weather and temperatures continue to change-and we aren't the only ones that need it.

15 Oct 2026

Comprehensive Analysis of Emerging Strategies for Targeting Cyclin-Dependent Kinases in Cancer

More than 30 years after the direct connection was established between the molecular machinery controlling cell division and cancer, a new paper traces the evolution of cyclin-dependent kinase research and outlines the next generation of CDK-targeted therapies.

15 Oct 2026

Scientists Discover Cell Division Mechanism Driving Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Experts from the University of Nottingham have discovered how a common genetic mutation disrupts the positioning of a key protein during cell division, revealing a new mechanism behind acute myeloid leukemia and a potential avenue for future treatment.

15 Oct 2026

Lipid Nanoparticles Reprogram NK Cells Internally to Eliminate Cancerous T Cells

MIT engineers have developed a new way to program natural killer (NK) immune cells to target cancerous T cells or T cells that have become autoreactive, leading to diseases such as lymphoma and autoimmune hepatitis.

14 Oct 2026

New AI Model Decodes the Language of Immune Cell Movement

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and collaborating institutions in Texas developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model that helps explain how immune cells find their way to specific locations in the body and why they avoid others.

14 Oct 2026

Massive Tumor Cell Analysis Reveals Secret Mechanism Behind Pancreatic Cancer Resistance

A new analysis of nearly half a million cells from dozens of pancreatic tumors, led by researchers at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center and New York University (NYU), reveals how pancreatic cancer cells continuously reshape their genetic makeup over time, enabling them to evade treatment.

14 Oct 2026

Transcriptional Repression Mechanism Prevents Protective Immune Pathways From Triggering Autoimmunity

A preclinical study by researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center has discovered how a protein called ZBTB44 helps prevent excessive immune activity that can cause inflammation in the colon, the main section of the large intestine. The findings, published in Nature Immunology, may help explain how immune responses go awry in a range of chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases

13 Oct 2026

Cancer News and Research

Clinician-Led Approach Could Give Doctors a Control Dial for Cell Therapies

Study Details Genetic Divergence Between Astrocytomas and Oligodendrogliomas

Dendritic Cell STING Activation Licenses Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte Priming

Stable Isotope Carbon Tracing Proves Uncoupling Inhibits De Novo Purine Synthesis

Mayo Clinic Study Advances Detection of Somatic DNA Mutations

Intestinal Cells Use Signal Rhythms to Determine Cell Growth

Machine Learning Tool Pinpoints Crucial Gene Regulation Changes

Balancing Immune Cells May Unlock Hidden Human Regenerative Potential

Novel Molecular Pathway Identified to Combat T-Cell Exhaustion in Cancer

Cell Division Actively Reshapes Crowded Epithelial Tissue, Study

Artificial Intelligence Integrates Multi-Omic Data to Predict HPV Lesion Progression

Immunometabolic Reprogramming Strategy Addresses Chronic Inflammatory Conditions

Study Uncovers Sex Specific Coordinated Stem Cell Dynamics in Skin Repair

Rhizosphere Tug-of-War for Iron Drives Plant-Microbe Evolutionary Co-Adaptation

Comprehensive Analysis of Emerging Strategies for Targeting Cyclin-Dependent Kinases in Cancer

Scientists Discover Cell Division Mechanism Driving Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Lipid Nanoparticles Reprogram NK Cells Internally to Eliminate Cancerous T Cells

New AI Model Decodes the Language of Immune Cell Movement

Massive Tumor Cell Analysis Reveals Secret Mechanism Behind Pancreatic Cancer Resistance

Transcriptional Repression Mechanism Prevents Protective Immune Pathways From Triggering Autoimmunity

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