The story of the princess and the pea evokes an image of a highly sensitive royal young woman so refined, she can sense a pea under a stack of mattresses.

Findings published today in Nature Cancer from Charles Mullighan, MBBS (Hons), MSc, MD, deputy director of the St. Jude Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Pathology, and collaborators show ...

IN THE POPULAR imagination, cancer starts with a mutation in the DNA of a normal cell. That mutation allows the cell to multiply uncontrollably, circumventing the body’s usual quality-control checks.

A new study reveals that glioblastoma, the most aggressive brain cancer, thrives by using sugar in unique ways that differ from healthy brain cells.

Cancer cells possess a remarkable quality called plasticity. This means they can change their form. This ability helps them survive and spread. Cancer cells act like young cells. They can adapt to ...

Researchers discovered a strange process where cells “vomit” their contents to heal faster. While it speeds tissue repair, the leftover waste could increase cancer risk.

Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have found a pattern of so-called epigenetic "marks" in a transition state between normal and pancreatic cancer cells in mice, and that the normal cells may ...

New research tapping into decades-old concepts is challenging the notion that the only way to treat cancer is to kill every ...