T cells can activate themselves to fight tumors(today.ucsd.edu)

114 points by gmays 3 years ago | 11 comments

Scientists Destroy 99% of Cancer Cells in the Lab Using Vibrating Molecules(sciencealert.com)

47 points by rmason 2 years ago | 9 comments

Study finds new pathway for clearing misfolded proteins(news.stanford.edu)

102 points by geox 3 years ago | 47 comments

Scientists observe an immune signaling complex forming inside cells(news.stanford.edu)

101 points by ohjeez 6 months ago | 7 comments

Simple Supplement That Causes Prostate Cancer Cells to Self-Destruct(scitechdaily.com)

5 points by amichail 1 year ago | 0 comments

Tiny DNA circles are key drivers of cancer, study finds(med.stanford.edu)

158 points by panabee 3 years ago | 27 comments

Scientists Untangle the Biology of an 'Undruggable' Cancer Gene(nytimes.com)

4 points by gumby 24 days ago | 2 comments

New York Times article on scientists working out the biology of a cancer gene long considered undruggable; the capture shows only a captcha page.

Scientist treated her own cancer with viruses she grew in the lab(nature.com)

570 points by dataminer 1 year ago | 198 comments

Nature news article about virologist Beata Halassy, who treated her own breast cancer with lab-grown oncolytic viruses, and researchers' warnings against copying her.

Moderna's mRNA cancer vaccine works better than thought(freethink.com)

324 points by nateb2022 2 years ago | 162 comments

Freethink article reporting that Moderna's personalized mRNA cancer vaccine significantly boosts a standard melanoma treatment's effectiveness.

New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study(lji.org)

615 points by codebyaditya 3 months ago | 262 comments

La Jolla Institute for Immunology news release on a new HIV vaccine approach that produced high levels of HIV-neutralizing antibodies in non-human primates.

Cheap blood test detects pancreatic cancer before it spreads(nature.com)

331 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 196 comments

Nature news article from February 2025 about an inexpensive blood test that can detect pancreatic cancer before it spreads to other parts of the body.

We’re secretly winning the war on cancer(vox.com)

365 points by lr0 1 year ago | 161 comments

Vox Future Perfect article by Bryan Walsh arguing that falling cancer death rates reflect quiet advances like reduced smoking and immunotherapy.