From the deep sea to the shallow seafloor, researchers are uncovering unusual sugars that do something extraordinary to ...

Scientists have created a new compound that can self-destruct cancer cells. The compound is made up of two proteins, which researchers "glued" together. They describe the process in a paper published ...

Cancer treatment often sounds distant and technical, so stories about it can feel hard to enter. Yet, everyday curiosity ...

In Alzheimer's, brain cells die too soon. In cancer, dangerous cells don't die soon enough. That's because both diseases alter the way cells decide when to end their lives, a process called programmed ...

Randal Halfmann at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City is hoping to treat diseases including cancer and Alzheimer's by influencing how cells make life-or-death decisions. In ...

Our bodies divest themselves of 60 billion cells every day through a natural process of cell culling and turnover called apoptosis. These cells — mainly blood and gut cells — are all replaced with new ...