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

MIT scientists have achieved the first-ever lab synthesis of verticillin A, a complex fungal compound discovered in 1970. Its delicate structure stalled chemists for decades, despite differing from ...

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

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 ...

One of the biggest risk factors for developing liver cancer is a high-fat diet. A new study from MIT reveals how a fatty diet ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BOSTON (WHDH) - Cancer survivor Dr. Regina Barzilay is a cancer survivor who is using her experience to help others. The professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology helped develop a way for ...

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 ...

This story is part of our "This Moment In Cancer" series. Three MIT professors are innovating at the tiniest possible scale — developing tools to see, target and kill cancer cells before they can ...

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