Scientists at MIT and Stanford have unveiled a promising new way to help the immune system recognize and attack cancer cells ...

“A simple urine test” could soon be enough to get a life-saving diagnosis. MIT researchers have crafted a new sensor designed to detect cancerous proteins. After peeing on the sensor, the results ...

A high-fat diet does more than overload the liver with fat. New research from MIT shows that prolonged exposure to fatty ...

Early detection is key when it comes boosting survival rates for cancer patients, and there are a lot of ways scientists are working to swing the odds in their favor. Urine tests that pick up ...

Cancer immunotherapy has been transformed by engineered T cells, but those bespoke treatments are slow, expensive, and out of ...

Tyler Jacks, PhD, will step down from the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT in Cambridge, Mass. after serving as director for over 19 years. Dr. Jacks will continue cancer genetics ...

Researchers at MIT have published a paper about an adhesive hydrogel patch that could be used in the treatment of colorectal tumors after surgery. Surgery is often the first treatment used in cases of ...

Dr. White is a professor of biological engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a member of both the MIT Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and the MIT Center for ...

A fatty diet doesn’t just damage the liver — it rewires its cells in ways that give cancer a dangerous head start.

Two new pancreatic cancer research laboratories opening at MIT and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute are giving researchers and patients renewed hope in fighting a disease that claims thousands of ...

MIT researchers have invented a new AI-driven way of looking at mammograms that can help detect breast cancer in women up to five years in advance. A deep learning model created by a team of ...

Cancer has a talent for hiding in plain sight, cloaking itself in sugary molecules that convince the immune system to stand ...