Possible origins of pancreatic cancer revealed
Tumors can arise from different cell types in the pancreas, depending on the circumstances, according to MIT cancer biologists.
Cancer research gets physical
5-year grant from the National Cancer Institute will fund projects by physicists that give a new view of cancer cells.
Protein is linked to lung cancer development
Drugs that inhibit the protein, which normally helps defend cells from infection, could target tumors in certain lung cancer patients.
Two from MIT elected to the Institute of Medicine
Professor of Economics Amy Finkelstein and Tyler Jacks, director of the Koch Institute, join arm of the National Academies of Science.
In Profile: Scott Manalis
His technology to weigh single cells led to an unexpected research focus: figuring out how cancerous cells escape normal growth controls.
Taking aim at aggressive cancer cells
Researchers use novel stem-cell method to discover chemical with potency against breast tumors in mice
Tumor mutations can predict chemo success
Genetic profiling of tumors could have 'immediate impact' on treating cancer, study shows
New test can predict spread of breast cancer
May help to reduce over- and under-treatment of the disease