While toxic in high concentrations, copper is essential to life as a trace element. Many tumors require significantly more copper than healthy cells for growth -- a possible new point of attack for ...

Researchers unveil a targeted approach that turns a tumor’s own chemistry against it, opening a new path in cancer research.

While toxic in high concentrations, copper is essential to life as a trace element. Many tumors require significantly more copper than healthy cells for growth—a possible new point of attack for ...

A recent study published in the journal ACS Chemical Neuroscience suggests that a copper-delivering drug can repair a vital ...

Using a groundbreaking imaging technique, a University of Houston chemist is uncovering how copper imbalances in the body may ...

A new study has uncovered a unique way in which the anti-cancer drug elesclomol enables copper delivery in cells, aiding in the search for treatments for copper deficiency disorders such as Menkes ...

Cuproptosis is fundamentally different from all previously known mechanisms of cell death: The deciding trigger is an excess of copper in the cell. It binds to certain proteins in the mitochondria ...