Cancer cells tend to take up more glucose than healthy cells, and researchers are increasingly interested in exploiting this tendency with drugs that target cancer cells' altered metabolism. Cancer ...

Cells operate on rules not vibes, including when on the precipice of persisting or perishing. Yet, with prior research ...

The key to changing blood types may be in the gut. Enzymes made by bacteria in the human digestive tract can strip the sugars that determine blood type from the surface of red blood cells in the lab, ...

Many of the most pressing health problems of our time start with obesity, so treating that root cause may be our best bet in many cases. Now, researchers at Yale have identified an enzyme in mice that ...

Doctors have long treated heart attacks, improved asthma symptoms, and cured impotence by increasing levels of a single molecule in the body: nitric oxide. The tiny molecule can change how proteins ...

Supercharging immune cells could provide an effective way to tackle cancer, according to new research by scientists in Scotland.

Cancers can become dependent on DNA repair pathways when they lose specific DNA repair processes making them difficult to target. Now, scientists at the Francis Crick Institute report they have found ...

Konstanz researchers identify an enzyme that plays a role in the migration of cells in our body—not only during normal tissue formation and wound healing, but also when tumor cells metastasize. This ...

Discovery of a clever trick that cancer cells use to make themselves immortal may lead to a way to stop their unchecked growth, according to scientists at the University of California, Berkeley.

A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, its Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer ...

Since stem cells can continually self-regenerate, making more stem cells, and differentiate into many different specialized cell types, they play an important role in our development and health. But ...