It's a noble image: brain cells valiantly fighting for their lives after astroke has cut off their precious blood supply. But some researchers now think that a more macabre process occurs when a brain ...

Chemotherapy kills cancer cells, but researchers headed by a team at the Netherlands Cancer Institute have now found that the way these cells die appears to be different than previously understood.

How cancer cells die from chemotherapy: a new pathway. We have been treating cancer by damaging the DNA of tumor cells for over a hundred years, for example with radiation and che ...