An oncology student has shocked TikTok with a viral video that offers a glimpse into how quickly cancer cells can grow. The microscope footage, shared by Sophie Williams, 23, a final-year PhD student ...

Scientists accidentally discovered how an old blood pressure drug hydralazine could fight aggressive brain cancer by targeting cellular oxygen sensors.

Slicing up and analyzing real, living, three-dimensional brain tissue comes with some obvious complications – as in, it tends ...

Chemotherapy uses medicines to kill fast-growing cells (like cancer cells) or to keep them from dividing (which is how cancers grow). It is a systemic treatment. This means the medicines will travel ...

Researchers from UC San Francisco and Cedars-Sinai have developed a new way to prompt stem cells to form specific organs. It sets the stage for growing human organs from scratch – a long-time goal of ...

Researchers have recreated a miniature human bone marrow system that mirrors the real structure found inside our bones. The ...

Senescent fibroblasts are aging cells in connective tissue that no longer divide and protect against tumor development. Yet, these same cells can promote cancer growth in a laboratory setting.Until ...

I’ve always been bookish. I spend most of my time in the lab rather than running, jumping or climbing. But I still have super strong muscles. They’re way bigger than when I was a young. I asked my ...

According to three Stanford scientists, lack of human biological material is a “major bottleneck to progress” for medical research. A steadily growing idea is one known as “bodyoids”—biological ...

Scientists published more than three dozen papers as part of the Human Cell Atlas, an effort to map the human body cell by cell. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...