Cancer cells provide healthy neighboring cells with additional mitochondria to put them to work. This has been demonstrated by researchers at ETH Zurich in a new study. In this way, cancer is ...

All cells in the body contain the same DNA, but different cell types express different genes; skin cells express genes for the skin, liver cells express liver genes, and so on. This coordination is ...

Moore’s Law was a ten-year forecast on transistors that instead held true for decades. We are reaching the physical limit of how powerful the same size of computer chip can be. For those who seek the ...

Being overweight or obese has long been linked to a greater risk of developing or dying from breast cancer. New research suggests a reason: Certain breast cancer tumors may feed on neighboring fat ...

Wugen has raised $115 million, tapping a Fidelity-led syndicate to fund its pursuit of FDA approval for the first off-the-shelf CAR-T for T-cell malignancies. A pivotal trial is underway, putting the ...

Researchers at the University of Washington and Fred Hutch found that CARD8, an inflammasome sensor, detects HIV-1 in macrophages during cell-to-cell viral transmissions from infected T cells. HIV can ...

More than one-sixth of adults around the world experience infertility in their lifetime. There is a high unmet need not only for increased access to affordable, high-quality fertility care for those ...

Genentech is continuing its summer of downsizing and cost-cutting, this time with plans to terminate a cell therapy deal worth as much as $2 billion. The pact is with Adaptive Biotechnologies and ...

When an invasive and deadly form of breast cancer called triple-negative grows, the fat cells around it seem to shrink. UCSF researchers have discovered that the cells of these tumors — so called ...