Researchers at the Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI), Kanazawa University, report in ACS Applied Nano Materials a new method to precisely measure nuclear elasticity—the stiffness or softness ...

One way cancer specialists detect the disease is by examining cells and bodily fluids under a microscope, a time-consuming and labor-intensive process called cytology. It involves visually inspecting ...

Medically reviewed by Susan Bard, MD Key Takeaways A skin exam is usually the first step in diagnosing skin cancer.A biopsy ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet report in the Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research that sodium selenite ...

Neuroblastoma cancer cells before (left) and after (right) chemotherapy. The black threads are the cell's internal scaffolding, which breaks apart during treatment. This damage should kill the cell, ...

A new study reveals a simple and fast, label-free way to distinguish aggressive cancer cells by how they physically behave. Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have developed this novel ...

A small bump on the skin may seem harmless, especially when it looks like a pimple or cyst. However, changes such as itching, growth, redness or scabbing shoul ...

Small cell lung cancer, or SCLC, is fraught with challenges. Patients are often diagnosed late so outcomes are poor; therapeutic advances have stalled due to lackluster funding and the disease, ...