cancer

A battery that charges itself in salty fluids starves tumors of oxygen, helping improve some drugs treat cancer, a study finds.

Researchers find many tumor-specific antigens form when cancer genes and transposable elements link up.

Contact inhibition of locomotion by adhesion receptors prevents cancer cells from eating each other. 

Beyond his achievements in academia, he also cofounded three pharmaceutical companies and filed 15 patents related to cancer therapeutics. 

Cohesin mutations cause dysregulations in alternative splicing, contributing to tumor initiation and progression, a study finds. 

DNA sequencing can identify mutations that predict recurrence of renal cell carcinoma and may help low-risk patients avoid unnecessary treatment, a study finds.

Jumping genes are let loose in cancerous cells, with multiple effects on cell health.

Noncoding RNAs and microproteins, once considered genomic noise, are turning out to be critical to the progression of some types of cancer.

The University of Chicago cell biologist is studying how the nutrients available to cancers influence their growth. 

Transposons may be key players in how tumors develop and spread, but they also keep cancer at bay in some circumstances.

Where and how human papillomavirus integrates itself into the human genome steers the infection’s clinical outcomes, finds a large, multifaceted study.

Research into how pancreatic tumors adapt to stress could lead to a new treatment approach.

A particular leucine-ferrying tRNA is more abundant in cancerous cells than healthy ones, and lowering its levels inhibits cancer growth, a study finds.

The expansion of mucus-degraders in the mouse gut—possibly due to poor nutrition—thins the colon’s mucus layer and may weaken defenses against blood-infecting microbes.