Subcutaneous immunotherapy injections work the same way as their intravenous counterparts — by changing or enhancing a person’s immune responses to cancer. Immunotherapy for cancer is a broad category ...

Chemotherapy for lung cancer is used for different purposes depending on the type and stage of cancer you have. This includes achieving cancer remission, shrinking a tumor before surgery, killing ...

Tumours have developed many strategies and tricks to gain advantages in the body. Led by cell biology professor Sabine Werner, researchers at ETH Zurich have now discovered another surprising trick ...

CRISPR is a gene-editing tool that acts like “molecular scissors,” but using it on cancer is complex. The technology’s biggest impact so far is in research labs, helping scientists understand how ...

A research team is shedding new light on Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG), a decades-old bladder cancer treatment, which is also given as vaccine against tuberculosis. The findings could help improve ...

Triathlete Derrick Edwin with his wife, AnnaMarie, who — like so many caregivers — has often struggled to find support and understanding on the work front. One November morning in 2021, Derrick Edwin ...

At first glance, dinosaur fossils and modern cancer research may seem worlds apart. But a new study suggests that soft tissue preserved for millions of years inside ancient bones could offer valuable ...

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 ...

Immunofluorescence microscopy images display dendritic cells in two distinct states. The left panel shows a dendritic cell in its naïve, unactivated form. The right panel presents a dendritic cell ...

With a patented treatment for breast-cancer tumors and newly formed company, a University of Arizona researcher is poised to move her research out of the lab and into the clinical setting. Joyce ...