In the late stages of cancer, cells break through normal tissue boundaries and metastasize (spread) to new sites in the body. How Do Cancer Cells Differ from Normal Cells? In normal cells ...

Scientists have discovered that some cancer cells pretend to be "super fit" to fool normal healthy cells into giving them ...

How is a normal cell transformed into a cancerous cell? The proteins involved in cell division events no longer appropriately drive progression from one cell cycle stage to the next. Cells that ...

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 ...

Different chemotherapy drugs will do this in different ways. They might: Cancer cells divide much more often than most normal cells. So chemotherapy is much more likely to kill them. Chemotherapy is ...

Imagine a super-charged immune cell that can launch a focused attack on stubborn solid tumors -- a smart fighter that destroys cancer cells for days without tiring. Biomedical engineers have made this ...