Varun Venkataramani is the winner of the 2025 Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators. A neurologist and group leader at Heidelberg University Hospital ...

Researchers have discovered how cells activate a last-resort DNA repair system when severe damage strikes. When genetic ...

Researchers are targeting dormant tumour cells that might explain why some cancers reappear long after successful treatment.

A protein once thought to simply help cancer cells avoid death turns out to do much more. MCL1 actively drives cancer ...

Scientists are looking for answers about how these confounding trips, known as metastases, occur throughout the human body Illustration of a human cancer cell Amber Dance, Knowable Magazine Back in ...

Cancer cells can brainwash their neighbors. Like the CIA deploying secret agents to turn an enemy, tumors use a similar strategy to manipulate nearby cells. The tumors’ agents are mitochondria, the ...

The study, published in British scientific journal Nature, suggests that the disease may begin in basal stem cells — ...

Breast cancer can spread—or metastasize—to many different parts of the body, but it's not well understood why tumors grow ...

Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is one of the most aggressive forms of lung cancer, with a five-year survival rate of only five percent. Despite this ...