Why tumors become drug-resistant
New findings could lead to drugs that fight back when tumors don’t respond to treatment.
New findings could lead to drugs that fight back when tumors don’t respond to treatment.
New technology offers three-dimensional images, making it easier to detect precancerous lesions.
New research enables high-speed customization of novel nanoparticles for drug delivery and other uses.
David Benjamin will investigate mechanisms that melanoma cells use to spread to distant sites throughout the body
Findings may offer a new way to kill cancer cells by forcing them into an alternative programmed-death pathway.
New study measures physical changes in tumor cells as they become metastatic.
Drugs that block nitric oxide could weaken cancer cells’ resistance, researchers say.
Measuring enzyme levels in patients may reveal healthy cells’ ability to survive chemotherapy.
New approaches to drug delivery offer hope for new, more targeted treatments.
Study of several dozen compounds based on a fungal chemical shows potent anti-tumor activity.
Surprising result suggests that enhancing these mutations’ impact could offer a new way to treat cancer.
MIT researchers are designing tools to analyze cells at the microscale.
Kamm is studying the mechanics of metastasis, the process of cancer-cell migration from one location in the body to another and the cause of more than 90 percent of cancer deaths.
New spectroscopy technique could help doctors better identify breast tumors.
Nanoparticles amplify tumor signals, making them much easier to detect in the urine.