1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (55+ words) Hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common form of primary liver cancer, remains one of the world’s most lethal malignancies, and its treatment options have changed surprisingly little over the past two decades. Now, a review published in Medical Oncology argues that…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (55+ words) Gene editing has long promised a revolution in cancer medicine, yet the promise has remained stubbornly out of reach for one deceptively simple reason: getting the CRISPR-Cas9 machinery into tumor cells, and only tumor cells, is extraordinarily difficult. A new…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (541+ words) A protein long considered a quiet passenger in the bloodstream has been caught playing a far more sinister role in liver cancer....

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (96+ words) Rice paddies are among the most productive agricultural ecosystems on Earth, feeding billions of people across Asia and beyond. Yet beneath the flooded fields lies a complex microbial world whose balance determines whether the soil stays fertile or degrades over…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (73+ words) A single microRNA molecule may help determine whether the parasitic blood fluke Schistosoma japonicum thrives inside its host or succumbs to programmed cell death, according to a new study published in Acta Parasitologica. Researchers led by Yuanzhao Sun and Haoran…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (634+ words) For years, immunologists have regarded neutrophils as short-lived first responders, cells that surge into infected or injured tissue, unleash a burst of antimicrobial chemicals, and then die within hours....

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (71+ words) Aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphoma remains one of the most stubborn challenges in modern hematology. Even with a therapeutic arsenal that now includes rituximab-based immunochemotherapy, targeted kinase inhibitors, immune checkpoint blockade, and chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapies, a substantial fraction of patients…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (75+ words) Bladder urothelial carcinoma remains one of the most challenging malignancies in oncology, a disease whose treatment has been persistently undermined by its remarkable ability to shrug off chemotherapy. Now, a team of researchers in China has uncovered a molecular mechanism…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (73+ words) Esophageal cancer remains one of the most lethal malignancies worldwide, and a new study published in Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences has uncovered a previously hidden molecular mechanism that helps these tumors survive. Researchers led by Yi Zhang, Tao Yan,…...