Jennifer Munson’s decade-long study in Roanoke reveals that chemo drugs damage the brain’s waste-clearing vessels — a breakthrough that could lead to treatments for “chemo brain” and other ...

T cell therapy has emerged as a powerful new way to treat cancer. By extracting patients' T cells, re-engineering them to ...

A review of recent literature shows bioengineering is reshaping oncology, from synthetic biology to nanomedicine, but what's ...

Duke researchers have developed a new AI-powered approach to nanoparticle drug delivery design, which performed well in lab tests with cancer drugs Drugs that fight diseases work best when they reach ...

Scientists have developed compounds that selectively block a crucial interaction between RAS and the enzyme PI3K, a driver of ...

A new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Nature Communications, reveals that cyclin-dependent kinases (CDK) promote DNA replication licensing in human cells by relieving inhibitory signals ...

The most widely used COVID-19 vaccines may offer a surprise benefit for some cancer patients – revving up their immune systems to help fight tumors.

Two cancer drugs could potentially slow or even reverse the effects of Alzheimer’s disease, a new study suggests. Researchers at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) explored how the ...

Following nearly 30 percent of successful breast cancer treatments, tumors return, claiming 685,000 lives worldwide every year. Now, we may have a new method for significantly reducing those recurring ...

Presenters line up after giving their talks during Postdoc Slam 2025 at UCSF’s Mission Bay campus on Sept. 17. Photos by Noah Berger “Tangled string is a nuisance when knitting, but did you know that ...

Ibuprofen is a household name—the go-to remedy for everything from headaches to period pain. But recent research suggests ...