How is a normal cell transformed into a cancerous cell? The proteins involved in cell division events no longer appropriately drive progression from one cell cycle stage to the next. Cells that ...

Signaling enables normal cells to sense whether their state of attachment to the extracellular matrix and to other cells is appropriate and whether hormones or growth factors call them to proliferate ...

Men who had given blood more than 100 times in their life were more likely to have blood cells carrying certain beneficial ...

Cancer cells are cells gone wrong — in other words, they no longer respond to many of the signals that control cellular growth and death. Cancer cells originate within tissues and, as they grow ...

Prostate cancer hijacks the normal prostate's growth regulation program to release the brakes and grow freely, according to Weill Cornell Medicine researchers. The discovery, published Dec. 13 in ...

Moreover, the drug did not affect normal cells that were not rapidly dividing, leaving healthy cells intact while killing the ...