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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.

Peking University Researchers Map High Dimensional Cellular Networks in Tumors

A comprehensive review led by Associate Researcher Linnan Zhu and Academician Zemin Zhang at Biomedical Pioneering Innovation Center (BIOPIC), Peking University, China, and Chongqing Medical University, China, was published in Volume 2, article number 27 of the journal Immunity & Inflammation on June 05, 2026.

13 Jun 2026

New Internal Cellular Process Creates Cysteine When Primary Systems Fail

A molecular geneticist at Montana State University has discovered a cellular process once believed impossible by scientists – the creation of the amino acid cysteine within a living cell when the cell's primary systems to do so fail.

13 Jun 2026

AI Decodes Biomolecular Condensates to Revolutionize Drug Discovery

Researchers at Princeton University have harnessed AI to understand how drugs affect the dynamics of vital structures within the cell.

13 Jun 2026

New Protein Storage Condensates May Hold Clues for Better Anticancer Strategies

A team of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health researchers has discovered large droplets of proteins known as condensates near inactive chromosome regions within the cell nucleus that are a feature of some cancer cells and may hold clues for better anticancer strategies.

12 Jun 2026

Body Clock Protein Drives Macrophages Into Pro-Inflammatory States

Daily life is shaped by the solar day, influencing when we wake up, eat, work, and sleep. Inside the body, a similar internal timing system -present in nearly every cell- known as the circadian clock, synchronizes many biological functions such as sleep, metabolism, hormone release, and even the immune system's activity.

12 Jun 2026

Collagen Exists as Liquid-Like Droplets Inside Cells

According to a recent study from the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona, collagen, the protein that forms skin, bones, tendons, and organs, occurs inside cells as a liquid-like droplet rather than the long, rigid rod portrayed in textbooks during the past fifty years.

12 Jun 2026

New Insights Into How Pancreatic Beta Cells Manage Protein Folding

Origami masters turn simple sheets of paper into ornate sculptures. In the origami of life, our cells must fold proteins into specific three-dimensional shapes before they can carry out their biological jobs.

12 Jun 2026

New Molecular Eraser Targets mRNA of Deadly Cancer Protein

Many of the deadliest forms of cancer are caused by a pathological mutation in the RAS protein. Yet, to date, no effective treatment for this cancer protein has been found. A new research approach aims to prevent the protein from forming in the first place by destroying its blueprint – the mRNA.

11 Jun 2026

Laverock Therapeutics Reports Key Oncology Research Milestones

Laverock Therapeutics, a biotechnology company developing disease-responsive advanced therapies through its unique, programmable gene control technology, today announced key in-vivo functional milestones across its T-cell and macrophage oncology program for solid tumor indications.

From Laverock Therapeutics 11 Jun 2026

Study Reveals Mitochondria Plug Straight Into the Nuclear Command

For generations, textbooks have taught that a cell's energy simply drifts to wherever it is needed.

11 Jun 2026

New Cell Therapy Modifies Natural Killer Cells Against Cancer

Scientists have made great progress in harnessing the body's own immune cells to treat so-called liquid tumors, cancers of the blood and lymphatic system.

11 Jun 2026

Tail Region of mRNAs Found to Act as Protein Chaperone

Proteins are how cells get work done. They carry out nearly every important cellular task, from ferrying messages to controlling which genes are turned on or off.

10 Jun 2026

DNA Barcode Technology Enables Massive Simultaneous Drug Candidate Validation

A Korean research team has launched a public drug discovery service capable of screening and validating tens of millions of compounds simultaneously.

10 Jun 2026

Researchers Outline Dynamic Protein Control Systems for Better Clinical Decisions

Cancer has often been explained through mutations in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) or changes in ribonucleic acid (RNA), but these layers do not fully explain why tumors with similar genetic profiles can behave differently.

10 Jun 2026

Coffee Can Now Serve as a Biological Switch for Medicines

For many of us, a warm cup of coffee is how we start our day. For Texas A&M Health researchers, it may also offer a new way to control engineered cells in future medicines.

9 Jun 2026

Salk Researchers Uncover Specialized Plant Protein for DNA Repair

Similar to the way DNA damage can contribute to human diseases like cancer, it can also disrupt growth, development, and survival in plants.

9 Jun 2026

Scientists Identify EHMT2 Enzyme as Main Cause of 5-FU Failure

One of the most widely used chemotherapeutic agents for colorectal cancer is 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), a cornerstone treatment that has improved outcomes for countless patients.

9 Jun 2026

Scottish Biotech Bead Biopharma Emerges From Stealth Mode with Novel Cancer Drug Platform

Bead BioPharma, a Scottish life sciences company backed by Archangels, today announced its emergence from stealth mode following the submission of its first patent, a milestone that marks the company’s formal entry into one of the most commercially active sectors in global oncology.

9 Jun 2026

Creatine Linked to Cancer-Fighting Dendritic Cell Function

According to recent UCLA research, creatine, the organic acid that athletes and bodybuilders frequently use as a supplement, supercharges a crucial class of immune cells that activate and prime the body's primary cancer-fighting agents.

8 Jun 2026

New Study Proves Research Models Accurately Replicate Cancer ecDNA Loops

Damage to DNA in cancer cells can lead to pieces breaking off chromosomes and floating away, like icebergs cracking off from a glacier. Just as icebergs are a threat to ships and their crew, these scattered bits of DNA loom large to physicians and cancer patients by having titanic effects on tumor progression and treatment resistance.

8 Jun 2026