Pressure on the heart as it pumps blood stops cancer cells from multiplying in mouse hearts. The beating of the heart stops ...

Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is one of the most aggressive and hardest forms of breast cancer to treat, but a new study led by Weill Cornell Medicine suggests a surprising way to stop it from ...

Scientists at EPFL have developed CenSpark, a fluorescent probe that makes centrioles and cilia visible inside living cells, ...

Researchers at Tulane University School of Medicine have discovered that if animal cells gain an extra set of chromosomes, a ...

Rushika M. Perera, the Deborah Cowan Professor and vice chair of the Department of Anatomy, and chief scientific officer of ...

Cancer cells are known for their “glutamine addiction,” but many can escape this weakness by switching to alternative fuels.

A newly proposed model suggests cancer cells may resist treatment not just through genetic mutations, but by dynamically ...

For almost 60 years, scientists have tried to understand why DNA doesn’t replicate wildly and uncontrollably every time a cell divides – which they need to do constantly. Without this process, we ...

A new set of drugs exploit a recently revealed weakness in "zombie-like"—or senescent—cells that could lead to new treatments ...

Chemotherapy kills cancer cells, but it also leaves behind something troubling: damaged cells that stop dividing yet refuse ...

In an amazing twist of fate, the aggressive cervical cancer tumor that killed Henrietta Lacks, a 31-year old African American mother, became an essential tool that helped the biomedical field flourish ...