A growing body of research has shown that bacteria are not only present in the gut and respiratory tract, but can also exist inside primary and metastatic tumors. These tumor associated bacteria are ...

The Nobel-prize season always kicks off with the award for physiology or medicine, which highlights work in fields such as genetics, cell biology and evolution. This year’s award went to three ...

Herd immunity occurs when enough people in a group are immune to a specific infection that it cannot spread easily from person to person. Vaccination programs have been successful in creating herd ...

Many modern cancer treatments, including immunotherapy, depend on activating killer T cells to recognise and destroy tumours.