A protein once thought to simply help cancer cells avoid death turns out to do much more. MCL1 actively drives cancer ...

Varun Venkataramani is the winner of the 2025 Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators. A neurologist and group leader at Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany, his work in cancer ...

Glucose is the fuel to the cellular engine. It powers the cell’s functions and serves as the raw material for synthesizing various essential biomolecules, including the sugar backbone of DNA and RNA.

Effective immunity hinges on the ability to sense infection and cellular transformation. In humans, there is a specialized molecule on the surface of cells termed MR1. MR1 allows sensing of certain ...

Laboratory experiments with cancer cells reveal two ways in which tumors evade drugs designed to starve and kill them, a new study shows. While chemotherapies successfully treat cancers and extend ...

From the deep sea to the shallow seafloor, researchers are uncovering unusual sugars that do something extraordinary to ...

Can pollution cause it? What about inflammation? And how do tumors spread? Here’s what scientists are learning about this complex disease. By Nina Agrawal Every day, billions of cells in our body ...

Scientists are looking for answers about how these confounding trips, known as metastases, occur throughout the human body Illustration of a human cancer cell Amber Dance, Knowable Magazine Back in ...

Cells are constantly on the move, whether in a developing embryo or metastatic cancer. But how do cells adapt to new environments they encounter? Traditionally, scientists have believed that cells ...

How Does Alecensa Work for Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)? Alecensa is a type of medicine called a kinase inhibitor. Kinases are enzymes that work in the body by sending and receiving signals that ...