Now, researchers at MIT have developed a small, portable ultrasound system that could help make breast cancer screenings more ...

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.

For people who are at high risk of developing breast cancer, frequent screenings with ultrasound can help detect tumors early ...

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.

Engineers at MIT and the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) have devised a new way to detect cancer that has spread to the liver, by enlisting help from probiotics — beneficial bacteria ...

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 ...

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 ...