Sniffing out cancer with animal noses

Switching on safer CAR T cell therapy

By activating CAR T cells only in the presence of an antibody switch, Travis Young and his team hope to … More

Treating cancer with a dose of the pox

The live virus in the smallpox vaccine boosts the activity of cancer-killing immune cells for hard-to-treat tumors. Drug Discovery News

Origami vaccines fold up to fight cancer

As self-assembling structures, DNA and RNA origami vaccines hold vaccine components in precise numbers and arrangements to help the immune … More

Glass T cells kill cancer in living color

With videos of dramatic cancer cell deaths and unflagging T cell attacks, Alex Ritter studies how immune cells and tumors … More

Metabolomics open a window into better cancer treatments

Chemical biologist Stefano Tiziani uses metabolomics to identify new combination cancer treatments and to predict which patients will respond best … More

Menstrual blood holds the key to better diagnostics

Usually thrown away as waste, menstrual blood may help clinicians non-invasively monitor and diagnose a multitude of health conditions from … More

Meet the microrobots primed to take down cancer

Sperm, bacteria, bubbles, and shuttles are just some of the latest cancer-treating microrobots in development for human use in the … More