The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has received a $100-million donation for a new cancer-research center from an alumnus who is a prostate-cancer survivor, MIT officials announced on Tuesday.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has received a $100-million pledge from David H. Koch — an executive vice president of Koch Industries and an alumnus — to build a new cancer-research center.

Cancer has a talent for hiding in plain sight, cloaking itself in sugary molecules that convince the immune system to stand down. Researchers at MIT and Stanford have now engineered a way to rip away ...

An enduring challenge for the study of human cancer is just how complex it is: how many different ways there are for cancers to originate, progress, and spread in the people who are diagnosed with ...

Decades ago, doctors created a test to determine which breast cancer patients should receive hormone therapy. Now, ...

In a breakthrough cancer therapy development, scientists at MIT and Harvard Medical School created a new way of designing immune cells that could make “off-the-shelf” cancer medications more potent ...

MIT scientists have found a way to make gene editing far safer and more accurate — a breakthrough that could reshape how we treat hundreds of genetic diseases. By fine-tuning the tiny molecular “tools ...