When the body encounters infection or cancer, cytotoxic T lymphocytes attach to the affected cell and form the immune synapse ...

Every time a cell divides, it must copy its DNA with extraordinary precision. But this process is constantly challenged by ...

Professor Bo Liu, Department of Plant Biology, holds an Arabidopsis plant while Professor Jawdat Al-Bassam, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, holds a model of the augmin protein complex.

How reorganizing existing drugs and vaccine components can dramatically alter their potency, selectivity, and even their ...

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have developed a new imaging method, known as RF-SIRF, that ...

University of Iowa-led study has revealed the unexpected structure adopted by the DNA repair protein RAD52 as it binds and protects replicating DNA in dividing cells. A University of Iowa-led study ...

Cancer cells have an insatiable appetite for energy as they multiply more rapidly than normal cells. Greedy cancer cells hijack various cellular functions to find and exploit energy and other ...

(andresr/E+/Getty Images) A woman's breast tissue undergoes dramatic changes as it ages, creating an environment where cancer ...

How Targeted Therapy Works In Cancer Care: Cancer begins when changes occur in the genetic structure of the body's cells.