When Jewel Plummer Cobb first peered through a microscope as a young girl, she couldn’t have imagined that her fascination with cells would lead her to become one of the most influential cancer researchers of the 20th century. Born in 1924 in Chicago, she would spend her life defying expectations and shattering glass ceilings in ...
Cancer research never sleeps. While we hear about the big names like chemotherapy and radiation, there’s a whole world of revolutionary treatments quietly making their way through labs and clinical trials. Some sound like science fiction, others work in ways that would have seemed impossible just decades ago. These aren’t your typical treatments that make ...
For a long time, mainly for blood cancers such as lymphoma and leukemia CAR T-cell therapy has provided a glimpse of possibility in the treatment of cancer. The latest clinical trial conducted in China has rebutted that notion with a previously unheard-of result against solid tumors. They are a difficult type of cancer to treat. ...
Dinosaur fossils have captivated our minds for decades by providing windows into a lost world of tall predators and gentle giants. But suppose these old bones contain more than just paleontological marvels? Imagine if they could open medical discoveries in our cancer fight. Published in Biology, a groundbreaking study reveals that dinosaur fossils especially their ...
