cancer

A team of researchers have designed a personalized cancer vaccine capable of inducing a years-long immune response that fights off melanoma.

Personalized Cancer Vaccines

Cancer

A recent study of personalized cancer vaccines showed "very rewarding" results.

Harvard Scientists Excited by Results on New Cancer Vaccine

A team of scientists submitted a new cancer medication for the FDA's approval without having experimented on a single animal.

Guilt-Free Science

Studies

Is medical research about to get more humane?

Scientists Create Cancer Drug Without Any Animal Tests

Nanoprobes called bioharmonophores can seek out and bind to cancer cells, making them glow brightly under medical scanners.

Glow Up

Spotting tumors might become a whole lot simpler.

Cancer-Hunting Nanotech Makes Tumors Light Up

A startup wants to deliver cancer drugs directly to brain tumors via tiny, injectible devices that look like little drills.

Drag And Drop

But don't worry — it's there to help.

Startup Creates Tiny Drill to Burrow Through Your Brain With Magnets

New research suggests that Toxoplasma gondii, the brain parasite infamously spread by pet cats, is linked to a greater risk of brain cancer.

Brain Worms

New research raises questions about cats and cancer.

Parasite Spread to Humans by Pet Cats Linked to Brain Cancer

After being arrested in late 2019 for attempting to take biological samples with him to China, cancer researcher Zaosong Zheng was sentenced to time served.

Cancer Caper

He was caught at the airport, trying to smuggle them out of the country.

Cancer Researcher Sentenced for Stealing Biological Samples

COVID-19 is on track to become the leading cause of death in the U.S., beating the daily death tolls for cancer and heart disease combined.

"Calamitous Scale"

"The current exponential increase in COVID-19 is reaching a calamitous scale in the U.S."

Daily Coronavirus Deaths Top Heart Disease and Cancer Combined

A massive scientific review that combined the results of thousands of studies found that regularly eating chili peppers is linked to major health benefits.

Spice It Up

People who eat these on the regular might live longer and have healthier hearts.

Huge Meta-Study: This Food Appears to Actually Make You Live Longer

Scientists are using viruses harvested from common plants to create cancer immunotherapies — and they've already proven to be effective in animal models.

Natural Virus

"If a treatment works in dog cancer, it has a very good chance of working, at some level, in human patients."

This Strange Plant Virus Could Treat Many Cancers

A team of researchers have found a way to biosynthesize tiny gold nanoparticles directly within cancer cells to aid in x-ray imaging — and to destroy them.

Hitting Gold

The gold can be heated up with a laser to destroy cancer cells.

Doctors Say They Can Kill Tumors by Growing Gold Inside Them

Doctors engineered a virus that can infect treatment-resistant tumors and make them more vulnerable to existing therapies.

One-Two Punch

Next, they're going to try it on human cancer patients.

Doctors Fight Deadly Tumors Using Gene-Hacked Virus

A team of scientists thinks it's cracked the code for developing electronics that can be embedded in someone's body without causing scarring along the way.