Big-picture patterns of DNA packaging, gene activation and mutations could hold the information needed to develop a blood-based biopsy for small cell lung cancer patients, according to new work ...

Recent years have brought a more targeted approach to treating acute myeloid leukemia (AML) based on accumulating knowledge about the genetic makeup of the heterogenous disease. “Over the past decade, ...

How are we improving the way the field of drug discovery creates machine learning algorithms to predict a protein’s interactions with a small molecule? The drug development pipeline is a costly and ...

Immunotherapy for sepsis is effective when doctors tailor the treatment precisely to the patient's immune system condition. While earlier research showed little benefit of immunotherapy in sepsis, a ...

The tissue adjacent to a tumor behaves differently than areas farther away: The tumor's cancerous cells influence their surroundings, blocking the body's immune defenses and creating a sort of haven ...