Soft tissue sarcomas are a group of rare cancers that can occur in almost any part of the body and develop in tissues like muscle, fat, and nerves. The most common types are leiomyosarcoma, ...

For most types of STS and for earlier stages of sarcoma, the treatment is usually similar. People may have surgery alone, or radiation therapy or chemotherapy in addition to surgery. Treatment may ...

Genetic studies have revealed many genes linked to both common and rare disease, but to understand how those genes bring about disease and use those insights to help develop therapies, scientists need ...

Memory T cells are a special type of white blood cell that "remember" past infections and vaccines, helping our bodies to ...

Researchers led by a team from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel have just discovered a way to destroy harmful ...

Research has shed new light on the way malignant cells change their shape and migration techniques to invade different types of tissue. Oregon State University research has shed new light on the way ...

A newly discovered cell that matures into two specialist cell types – an immune cell responsible for tissue repair and a cell that forms blood vessels – significantly boosts wound healing, according ...

The epithelium is a type of tissue that covers many different surfaces on the inside and the outside of your body. Epithelial cells are packed tightly together and serve as a barrier between the ...

While both types of tissue grafts can produce similar results, the path to surgery and recovery can vary widely between allografts and autografts. Every year, millions of people undergo tissue ...

A new 3D human brain tissue platform developed by MIT researchers is the first to integrate all major brain cell types, including neurons, glial cells and the vasculature into a single culture. Grown ...