Cancer is often thought of as a single disease. Yet even tumors that arise in the same organ can follow very different ...

Cancer begins when mutations in specific genes override the body’s built-in controls on cell division, allowing rogue cells to multiply without restraint. Decades of research have traced this process ...

CFTR is a protein essential to wet surfaces throughout your body, like the airways of your lungs. People with cystic fibrosis have a gene mutation that causes problems with the protein. Some ...