Cuproptosis was discovered in 2022. It was a previously unknown type of cell death caused by an excess of copper. The ...

A common vitamin may be quietly helping cancer cells evade death. The body depends on vitamin B2, also called riboflavin, but ...

Researcher at Harvard Medical School develops AI-driven molecule targeting tumor mitochondria defects to destroy cancer ...

Scientists have discovered that losing a key protein in small cell lung cancer triggers inflammation that actually helps ...

The emergence of cancer drug resistance remains one of the most pressing problems in cancer care and there is a critical need to devise approaches to mitigate it. However, the molecular mechanisms ...

Scientists discovered that certain cancer cells use a low-level activation of a DNA-dismantling enzyme—normally seen in cell death—to survive treatment. Instead of dying, these “persister cells” ...

Nanoparticles built from red blood cell membranes and loaded with a sound-sensitive dye kill liver cancer cells when ...

A newly published study reports that APC-deficient cancer cells may depend on a single metabolic enzyme for survival, revealing a potential strategy for selectively targeting tumours associated with ...

A team of researchers at VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center has identified a new pathway through which mutations in the tumor suppressor p53 gene—found very frequently in human tumors—hijack DNA ...

Drugs that block enzymes called tyrosine kinases are among the most effective targeted therapies for cancer. However, they ...