oral cancer

Researchers connect a tumor’s leading edge transcriptional profile to poor survival outcomes across cancer types. 

Scientists use locust brains as living biosensors to perform cancer cell breath tests.

Human and mouse oral tumors recruit nerves to produce peptides that the cancer cells need to survive—but this process can be blocked with a migraine drug.

Head and neck cancer cells lacking the peptide involved in energy production were less likely to metastasize in mice.

The results add to mounting evidence of microbes’ roles in tumor growth and point to the possibility of impeding malignancies by inhibiting bacteria.