Cancer

In the 1970s, epidemiologists found that workers in factories using vinyl chloride, the key ingredient for PVC plastics, had unusually...

Cancer cells often break free from their original locations and circulate through the bloodstream, allowing them to form new tumors...

Biologists at MIT and the Whitehead Institute have discovered a vulnerability of brain cancer cells that could be exploited to...

The human immune system is poised to spring into action at the first sign of a foreign invader, but it...

More than 100 drugs have been approved to treat cancer, but predicting which ones will help a particular patient is...

Correctly diagnosing a person with cancer — and identifying the specific type of cancer — makes all the difference in...

Sangeeta Bhatia has been named the recipient of the 2015 Heinz Award for Technology, the Economy, and Employment. The Heinz...

MIT researchers have shown that they can use a microfluidic cell-squeezing device to introduce specific antigens inside the immune system’s...

Engineers at MIT and the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) have devised a new way to detect cancer...

From a young age, Daniel Zhang, an MIT senior majoring in biology and chemistry, viewed the world around him as...

MIT will be the lead research institution in a project to develop ironless superconducting cyclotrons, an effort that will make...

In a blood sample taken from a cancer patient, there may be a single circulating tumor cell among hundreds of...

Pharmaceutical firms “underinvest” in long-term research to develop new cancer-fighting drugs due to the greater time and cost required to...

Mitochondria are well known for their role as powerhouses in our cells, using respiration to release the energy in the...

In the battle against cancer, which kills nearly 8 million people worldwide each year, doctors have in their arsenal many...

Chronic inflammation caused by disease or exposure to dangerous chemicals has long been linked to cancer, but exactly how this...

Replicating how cancer and other cells interact in the body is somewhat difficult in the lab. Biologists generally culture one...

MIT biological engineers have developed a modular system of proteins that can detect a particular DNA sequence in a cell...

Tyler Jacks, a pioneering cancer biologist and director of MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, is this year’s recipient...

(Thomas Jefferson University) A new study in mice has shown that cancers with KRAS-related gene mutations might benefit from a...