A new "tumor-on-a-chip" model is giving scientists a live look at how pancreatic cancer can recruit the body's own immune ...

Researchers at Tel Aviv University's Gray Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences have uncovered how a natural and essential ...

There is a constant war going on in your body. Working against you are viruses and cancer cells growing uncontrollably, ...

(Juan Gartner/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) The human immune system has evolved an incredible ability to fight off ...

Scientists have identified a molecular switch that may help explain how colorectal cancer becomes deadly. When levels of a ...

Scientists at USC have developed a way to create a renewable supply of immune cell precursors that can be grown in large ...

For the past 15 years or so, a class of drugs called immune checkpoint inhibitors have been used to treat melanoma – the most dangerous kind of skin cancer. For many patients, they produce remarkable ...

Scientists have discovered that a rare “mirror-image” version of the amino acid cysteine can dramatically slow the growth of certain cancers while leaving healthy cells largely untouched. Unlike most ...

Scientists at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research have captured, for the first time, 'housekeeping' immune cells actively attacking and engulfing live melanoma cells – a discovery that could ...

(STEVE GSCHMEISSNER/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) Scientists may have found a way to destroy cancer cells without ...