Few medical terms create as much anxiety as the words "brain tumor" and "brain cancer." The moment these phrases are mentioned, many people automatically think of a life-threatening diagnosis. Yet ...

An international research team has discovered a new type of skeletal tissue that offers great potential for advancing regenerative medicine and tissue engineering. An international research team led ...

As we age, our cells accumulate genetic changes—mutations—some of which open the door to cancer. Scientists call these mutations "oncogenic," meaning "tumor-producing." By our senior years, we each ...

Ultrasound is widely used in breast cancer diagnosis. While it can effectively show that a lump is filled with fluid – indicating it is unlikely to be cancer – it cannot reliably determine whether a ...

I sometimes joke that I was raised on benign neglect though at the time, we just called it childhood. In the late ‘80s and early ’90s, I was what many would call a latchkey kid. I remember walking the ...

In a new study, researchers found microplastics deep inside prostate cancer tumors, raising more questions about the role the ubiquitous pollutants play in public health. Subscribe to read this story ...

At first glance, it might not seem like people have much in common with deer. But a strange discovery about how their antlers regenerate is lifting the lid on the unseen ways that our bodies work, too ...

It has traits that could easily be mistaken for cancerous tissue. But a new type of tumor with squishy insides cocooned in a hard, bone crust is actually benign. Now, detailed guidelines will help ...

It's not often that a pathologist gets to make a diagnosis that works for the patient by preventing treatment from occurring. But thanks to a Johns Hopkins Medicine doctor and his newly reported ...

An example of an OSET (Ossifying Spindled and Epithelioid Tumor), a newly discovered and classified benign soft tissue tumor. Here, the OSET is seen as a surgically excised gross specimen (upper left) ...

Cervical epithelial cells are far from passive bystanders in the body's immune system. New research shows they actually play an active and highly coordinated role in detecting and fighting infections.

Graphical illustration of the single-cell atlas of the human uterine cervix. It highlights the comparison of tissue and organoid cell types, how pathogen infection affects the cervical cells, and the ...