Researchers have identified a potential new way to treat idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a deadly and currently incurable lung disease that affects more than 3 million people worldwide.

Researchers at Umeå University, Sweden, have discovered a previously unknown type of connective tissue cells that surround ...

The study focused on fibroblasts, cells that comprise connective tissue and secrete collagen. One subtype of fibroblasts, cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs), play a pivotal role in promoting tumor ...

Teddi Mellencamp’s life is hanging in the balance as she battles an aggressive form of Stage 4 skin cancer. The “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star revealed this week that her dad ...

The final buzzer at the Breslin Center has sounded, marking an end to Michigan’s 2024-25 girls high school basketball season. Now, it’s time for the state’s best to begin collecting their ...

Research featured in Oncotarget indicates that fasting can diminish the presence of M2-type tumor-associated macrophages within the tumor microenvironment--cells that typically assist cancer in ...

Tumor cells transform fibroblasts into cancer-associated fibroblasts, which have an important immunosuppressive activity on which growth, invasion, and metastasis depend. These activated fibroblasts ...

Transcription of the amplified ecDNA genes can promote oncogenic processes, such as the increased expression of cancer drivers ... factor receptor (EGFR) and fibroblast growth factor receptor ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) said in 2015 that there is a cancer risk associated with glyphosate exposure. First Nation leaders have rightly issued a ban on aerial herbicide spraying of ...

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the White House to restore the Associated Press‘s access to key presidential events, ruling the Trump administration violated the First Amendment by ...

Some 90% of all missed lung cancer cases occur on chest X-rays. Chest pain, coughing, fatigue, and shortness of breath are symptoms associated with a number of diseases. These common symptoms may ...