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

Unlike accidental cell death, some cells can actively decide to die through a controlled process. This is called programmed ...

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A new stem-cell-inspired technique allows scientists to grow vast numbers of immune-cell progenitors that can be engineered ...

Getting it over the finish line was a labor of love—and now, more than five years after her death, the lab of former Sloan ...

A gastrointestinal oncologist told Newsweek that the early-stage findings are a “major step forward” in targeting colon ...

The pancreas is in the upper part of the abdomen. (Sebastian Kaulitzki/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) Pancreatic ductal ...

In a wholly new approach to cancer treatment, Northwestern University biomedical engineers have doubled the effectiveness of chemotherapy in animal experiments. Instead of attacking cancer directly, ...

Fusobacteria are normally associated with the spread of bowel cancer. But now the sensational discovery: the bacteria can ...