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Creative Minds: Engineering Targeted Breast Cancer Treatments

Debra Auguste A few years ago, Debra Auguste, a chemical engineer then at Harvard University, was examining the statistics on breast cancer: the second most common cancer in women in the U.S. after...

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Snapshots of Life: Wild Outcome from Knocking Out Mobility Proteins

Credit: Praveen Suraneni and Rong Li, Stowers Institute for Medical Research When biologists disabled proteins critical for cell movement, the result was dramatic. The membrane, normally a smooth...

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Cancer Metastasis: Trying to Catch the Culprits Earlier

Caption: Scaffold of a cancer cell-attracting implant as seen by scanning electron microscopy. Credit: Laboratory of Lonnie Shea For many people diagnosed with cancer localized to the breast, prostate,...

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LabTV: Curious about Pancreatic Cancer

Growing up in Blacksburg, VA, Lindsey Brinton was constantly asking her parents how everything worked. She took this expansive natural curiosity with her to the University of Virginia, where she...

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Cool Videos: Spying on Cancer Cell Invasion

If you’re a fan of the Mission: Impossible spy thrillers, you might think that secret agent Ethan Hunt has done it all. But here’s a potentially life-saving mission that his force has yet to...

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