Top Science Stories of 2018

A Mass. General Hospital study reveals how solid stress from nodular brain tumors compresses adjacent healthy tissue, restricts blood supply and damages neurons. The psychiatric drug lithium may be able to reduce these effects. (Giorgio Seano, PhD, Steele Laboratories of Tumor Biology, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital)

Dr Carlo Maley, an evolutionary and cancer biologist, discusses how nature has already beaten cancer, and the possibility of using those methods in humans.

Just like our healthy cells, malignant cancer cells need energy to survive. Sophia Lunt, Ph.D explains how she intends to cut off cancer cells' survival potential, and pioneer a new way of halting their growth.