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

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

Scientists have pinpointed a “Big Bang” moment in bowel cancer—when cells first evade the immune system. This early immune escape locks in how the cancer will behave as it grows. The discovery could ...

Cancer always seems to break the rules — defying normal biology and finding new ways to survive, grow, and spread. That ability fascinated Rushika M. Perera, PhD, when she was younger. It’s what ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Malignant melanoma (cancer of the skin or mucous membranes), developed at the expense of ...

Where might we look for inspiration for new cancer therapies? Some researchers say perhaps the bowhead whale. Here's science reporter Ari Daniel. ARI DANIEL, BYLINE: So there's this paradox in cancer ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. Cancer: it’s a diagnosis that most of us have learned to fear. On the one hand decades ...