cancers

Early on, every stem cell faces a fateful choice. During skin development, for instance, the embryonic epidermis begins as a single layer of epidermal progenitor cells. Their choice is to become a mature epidermal cell or switch to becoming…

Investigators at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have designed an innovative RNA-based strategy to activate dendritic cells -- which play a key role in immune response -- that eradicated tumors and prevented their recurrence in…

Within every cancer are molecules that spur deadly, uncontrollable growth. What if scientists could hook those molecules to others that make cells self-destruct? Could the very drivers of a cancer’s survival instead activate the program for…

Giving patients with operable pancreatic cancers a three-pronged combination immunotherapy treatment consisting of the pancreatic cancer vaccine GVAX, the immune checkpoint therapy nivolumab and urelemab, an anti-CD137 agonist antibody…

Cities where tap water is laced with toxic 'forever chemicals' have above-average rates of disease and pregnancy complications, a DailyMail.com analysis shows.The majority of neighborhoods with the highest levels of PFAS chemicals in…

A team of scientists led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has found that an existing cancer drug could be repurposed to target a subset of cancers that currently lack targeted treatment options and is often…

Cancer cells-to-be accumulate a series of specific genetic changes in a predictable and sequential way years before they are identifiable as pre-malignancies, researchers at Stanford Medicine have found. Many of these changes affect…

Scientists have designed an AI tool that can rapidly decode a brain tumor's DNA to determine its molecular identity during surgery -- critical information that under the current approach can take a few days and up to a few weeks. Knowing a…

In the first part of The Mail on Sunday's women's health special last weekend, our world-leading experts told you everything you need to know about three of the most pressing mid-life concerns.We tackled intimate problems – everything from…

Early detection of cancer considerably increases the chances of effective therapy, long-term survival, and better quality of lifeIndividuals can boost their chances of discovering cancer at its earliest and most treatable stage by getting…