By their nature, cancer cells have different nutritional needs than healthy cells. "Cancer cells have a distinct metabolism," said Gary Patti, the Michael and Tana Powell Professor of Chemistry at ...

How do different cancer subtypes arise? Do they originate from distinct cells, or from a single multipotent cell capable of ...

Cancer drugs can shrink fast-growing tumors. But sometimes a few tumor cells survive. These "persister" cells seed new tumors, forcing cancer patients into arduous cycles of testing and treatment.

A cancer diagnosis often brings a long list of unknowns for patients waiting to see which treatments will work best. To speed ...

For decades, scientists have been all about DNA when it comes to cancer. But new research from Virginia Tech and Tel Aviv ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising twist in how cells behave when division goes wrong. Sometimes a cell successfully copies its DNA but fails to split into two, leaving it with double the genetic ...

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

Melanoma may not become steadily more dangerous with age as scientists once assumed. In a surprising discovery, researchers ...