Pancreatic cancer reprograms nerve cells to fuel its growth, but blocking these connections can shrink tumors and boost ...

CAR-T-cell therapy treated a girl with a rare childhood cancer, raising hopes for future recipients of the approach.

Nerve-cell ‘highways’ identified in mice suggest that stress pushes the brain towards rigid habit and away from thoughtful ...

Nerve cells that signal when we are full also trigger cravings for sweets. Most people have experienced this: you've finished ...

A patient has achieved over 18 years of remission from neuroblastoma, a type of nerve cell cancer, following treatment with ...

Tau is a protein that builds up and moves between nerve cells in the brains of people living with Alzheimer’s disease, causing damage. Professor Mudher is using clever genetic manipulation in fruit ...

A person with neuroblastoma, which occurs when developing nerve cells in children turn cancerous, has remained tumour-free ...

In mice, blocking nerve function inhibited cancer growth and increased the sensitivity of tumor cells to certain chemotherapies and immunotherapies. For several years, scientists have been ...

Who hasn't been there? The big meal is over, you're full, but the craving for sweets remains. Researchers from the Max Planck ...

Scientists in China say they have developed an optical fibre technology that could pave the way for real-time endoscopies of nerve cells in the brain, as well as faster next-gen telecommunications.

called CAR T-cells, has kept a person free of a potentially fatal nerve tumour for a record-breaking 18 years. “This is, to my knowledge, the longest-lasting complete remission in a patient who ...