A previously unknown mechanism that makes it possible for aggressive so-called triple-negative breast cancer to fine-tune its ...

A large genetic screen has revealed how stem cells transform into brain cells, exposing hundreds of genes that make this ...

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The TO_AITION project, completed this month (December 2025), has been investigating the biological causes of inflammation linking cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and depression, and has used a wide ...

Tanning beds sharply raise the risk of melanoma, and a new study now shows why. Trump adopts new nickname Ten years before Rob and Michele Reiner were killed in their home, Rob made a movie about the ...

Anyone who has known someone diagnosed with cancer knows this. The earlier it is detected, the greater the chances of treatment and cure. Since 1948, scientists have known that dying cells, including ...

What happens to the thousands of intestinal cells that have tumour-initiating DNA mutations? A study in mouse models shows that most are eliminated by strong negative selection, but those that survive ...

Breast cancer nurses hope books they have written to help explain treatments to children will help the "whole family". Authors and specialist nurses Emily Turnbull and Rachel Lockerbie wrote three ...

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 ...

As colon and rectal cancers in young people are on the rise globally, especially in the United States, consumption of ultraprocessed foods has been in lockstep. The fare now makes up roughly 70% of ...

A gastroenterologist at the Mayo Clinic who treats patients with pancreatic cancer shares the warning signs he looks for in his own body. The disease is stealthy and deadly. Pancreatic cancer isn’t ...