US researchers have found that taurine, an amino acid often added to energy drinks such as Red Bull and Celsius, can act as a fuel source for leukemia cancer cells, which develop in bone marrow.

Now 18 and cancer free, Axel is a newly minted high school graduate, playing guitar in his parents’ basement, and wearing a ...

A study in Nature shows that leukemia cells drink up taurine, which is produced in the body and also consumed through foods and in energy drinks, and use it as fuel for growth. This highlights a ...

The American Cancer Society estimates there will be around 67,000 new leukemia cases in the US this year and about 23,500 deaths. Getty Images.

Breeze Hunter, a 22-year-old college student, struggled for months with a sinus infection she couldn’t shake. She was later diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia and underwent a rigorous ...

Leukemia is a type of cancer that attacks blood-forming cells in the bone marrow. There are two types of rapidly progressing, or acute, leukemia: ALL and AML. Find out how they're similar to and ...

A new study has identified taurine, which is made naturally in the body and consumed through some foods, as a key regulator of myeloid cancers such as leukemia. The paper is published in Nature.

On May 30, Adrian was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Insurance was supposed to help alleviate some of the cost, but it was set to go into effect the first day of June, meaning Adrian’s ...

Led by Ryan Flynn, MD, PhD, assistant professor of stem cell and regenerative biology at Harvard Medical School (HMS), the study identified one RNA-binding protein on the cell surface, NPM1, as a ...

Combined treatment with a tyrosine kinase inhibitor and blinatumomab has converted Ph-positive ALL, once the most deadly hematologic cancer, to a disease with long-term survival of 75 to 80%.