Tumors have figured out various ways to prevent the immune system from attacking them. Medicine, for its part, has fought back with cancer immunotherapies. The major approach uses checkpoint ...

Sometimes cells need to die. The process of cell death is encoded within the genome of all higher organisms to kill off cancerous cells, and as a normal part of development to shape a mass of ...

Cancer immunotherapy methods turn up the heat on cancer. Some methods effectively strip cancer cells of their immune-system-deceiving disguises. Other methods subject cancer cells to the targeted ...

Chemotherapy administered to cancer patients has a variety of adverse side effects such as tissue damage, reduced immunity, and weight loss. Preventing these unwanted side effects could improve the ...

Sometimes cells need to die. The process of cell death is encoded within the genome of all higher organisms to kill off cancerous cells, and as a normal part of development to shape a mass of ...

A new study published in the journal Nature in March 2020 reports the discovery of a new approach to cancer immunotherapy, which could be useful in many more cancers than at present. Immune cells ...

A gene called gasdermin E, which is downregulated in many cancers, aids cells in dying in an unexpected way, and may also suppress tumor growth. Sometimes cells need to die. The process of cell death ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Sometimes cells need to die. The process of cell death is encoded within the genome of all higher organisms to kill off cancerous cells, and as a normal part of development to shape a ...