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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.

CU Boulder Study Shows Genetic Link Between Mental and Physical Illness

For centuries, mental illness and physical disease have been viewed as two distinct categories, each with its own field of study, its own doctors, and its own menu of treatments.

10 Apr 2026

New Experimental System Mimics Low-Grade Pediatric Glioma in 3D

A three-dimensional experimental system has been developed to study the response to drugs in low-grade glioma, a tumor of the central nervous system that often occurs in children.

10 Apr 2026

Redefining Cancer Therapy Through Selective Targeting of BET Protein Families

For over a decade, a class of drugs called BET inhibitors has been tested in cancer trials with high expectations.

10 Apr 2026

Cutting-Edge AI Tool Could Accelerate the Creation of New Medicines

University of Virginia School of Medicine scientists have developed a bold new approach to drug development and discovery that could dramatically accelerate the creation of new medicines.

10 Apr 2026

New Method Reveals Genome Changes and Activity in Cancer

Researchers at the University of Minnesota Medical School have developed a new method called PARTAGE that provides a clearer picture of how the genome is regulated and disrupted in diseases like cancer.

9 Apr 2026

Study Identifies Stemness Checkpoint Controlling Stem Cell Identity

A study published in Cell Research advances a central idea in stem cell biology by identifying a checkpoint that controls the identity of many different types of stem cells across developmental stages.

9 Apr 2026

CIPHER-seq Reveals RNA and Protein Activity in Immune Cells

A new single-cell technology is giving scientists their clearest view yet of immune cell behavior-capturing not just genetic intent but real-time activity.

9 Apr 2026

Cnpy1 Protein Found Essential for Vomeronasal Neuron Survival

Researchers at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Hyderabad, have identified a mammalian protein, Cnpy1 (Canopy1), that is essential for the survival and function of vomeronasal sensory neurons in mice.

8 Apr 2026

Study Reveals Pol Theta Role in Cancer DNA Repair

A cancer drug target already being investigated in clinical trials turns out to be doing something even more consequential than researchers realized.

8 Apr 2026

How Cancer Cells Evade Chemotherapy-Induced Apoptosis

Researchers at Umeå University have provided new insights into how cancer cells defend themselves against cell death.

8 Apr 2026

Semen-Derived Exosomes Eye Drops to Treat Retinoblastoma

Innovative eye drops using semen-derived exosomes target retinoblastoma, improving therapeutic delivery and preserving ocular function in preclinical models.

8 Apr 2026

ASHOP Platform Unifies Multi-Omics Data for Blood Cancer Insights

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, the American Society for Hematology (ASH) and the Munich Leukemia Laboratory have developed a data-sharing platform that unites genomics, gene expression and clinical information from nearly 6,000 patients with blood cancers.

7 Apr 2026

New Mouse Model Reveals Viral Path to Liver Cancer

Liver cancer is one of the world's deadliest cancers, and most cases are linked to chronic viral hepatitis. Yet scientists have lacked an animal model that faithfully recapitulates how the disease unfolds in people, from initial infection with a virus to liver inflammation, scarring, and cancer.

7 Apr 2026

African Genomic Project Expands Global Understanding of Human Diversity

A newly published paper in Nature describes the complex process of launching a nine-country collaboration in Africa to significantly expand scientists' understanding of human genetic diversity.

7 Apr 2026

Breakthrough Platform Could Accelerate Therapeutic Development for Mitochondrial Disorders

Some of your most important life partners are the mitochondria that power all your cells. You and these little cellular powerhouses are in a 1.5-billion-year-old evolutionary relationship-but mitochondria brought some baggage.

7 Apr 2026

Novel ENDOtollins Block Harmful Inflammation While Preserving Infection Response

Scripps Research scientists have developed a new class of drug compounds that reduce harmful inflammation while leaving the body's ability to fight infections intact-a long-sought goal in treating autoimmune diseases.

7 Apr 2026

3D Microfluidic Tumor Model Reveals How High-Fat Diets Promote Invasive Cancer

Princeton researchers have revealed new links between high-fat diets and aggressive breast cancer, demonstrating the important role fat plays in making some cancers more invasive.

7 Apr 2026

Study Maps Cellular Pathways Essential for Metaplasia and Precancerous Lesions in the Pancreas

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is the most common type of pancreatic cancer and has a low five-year survival rate.

6 Apr 2026

How Bacterial Enzymes Use Ratchet Mechanisms to Break Down Collagen

Collagen is an important protein that helps build the tissues of humans and animals. It is very strong because it is made of three protein strands twisted tightly together like a rope. Because of this sturdy structure, ordinary protein-cutting enzymes usually cannot break it down.

6 Apr 2026