Scientists at UCLA have developed an “off-the-shelf” cell-based immunotherapy that was able to track down and kill pancreatic ...

Sharp Memorial Hospital is the first hospital system in San Diego to use a revolutionary technology to destroy cancerous tumors. The groundbreaking treatment, called histotripsy, focuses external ...

One of the best ways to defeat cancer is by rousing the immune system to attack it. Experts have thought that immune cells had to be inside of tumors for one type of immunotherapy, known as checkpoint ...

Cells have a natural editing system that allows them to rearrange genetic instructions to create different proteins from the ...

In the fight against cancer, an important field of research is the search for safe alternatives to chemotherapy and radiotherapy. These treatments attack both cancer cells and healthy cells, exposing ...

Cell therapies, which have made waves in the treatment of blood cancer, are showing potential for solid tumors.

Scientists have engineered a groundbreaking cancer treatment that uses bacteria to smuggle viruses directly into tumors, bypassing the immune system and delivering a powerful one-two punch against ...

Immunotherapies, such as the blockbuster immune checkpoint inhibitor drug Keytruda (pembrolizumab), work by keeping cancer cells from suppressing a patient’s immune system and thus allowing the immune ...

Amorphous iron nanoparticles have a specific toxicity in tumor cells. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, Chinese scientists describe their design and synthesis of a special amorphous state of ...

Alternative RNA splicing is like a movie editor cutting and rearranging scenes from the same footage to create different versions of a film. By selecting which scenes to keep and which to leave out, ...

April 2 -- WEDNESDAY, April 1 (HealthDay News) -- New research out of Spain suggests that THC -- the active ingredient in marijuana -- appears to prompt the death of brain cancer cells. The finding is ...

Time and again, the adrenaline-inducing show Fear Factor brought out scorpions to scare contestants. As the arachnids crept toward the thrill seekers with stingers raised, even the audience’s hearts ...