The body needs fatty acids for a variety of functions, and the health benefits of taking fatty acid supplements have long been debated. DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) is an omega-3 fatty acid, and it's ...

Some may be surprised to learn that there are good fatty acids that the human body needs despite the prevalence of low-fat diets. Among Omega-3 fatty acids, DHA is particularly important because it's ...

Fat sucked out of the body and tweaked with the gene-editing tool CRISPR could be used to treat cancer, a study of mice and transplanted human tissues hints. However, it remains to be seen whether the ...

The immune system can detect and destroy pathogenic and cancerous cells, but sometimes those dangerous cells can evade the immune system. Researchers have now learned more about how cancer cells ...

"We soon found that certain fatty acids stimulated the tumor cells while others killed them," the researchers explained. DHA literally poisons them. The poison acts on tumor cells via a phenomenon ...

What we commonly term “good fatty acids,” or polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs), are essential for human health, and are considered to be important as part of a healthy eating plan. Among these, the ...

A new study published in the journal Immunity reveals a mechanism that allows triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) to develop resistance to therapy. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine showed ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am an 88-year-old male suffering from a fatty tumor located on my gluteus maximus. Two different local gastroenterologists have refused to remove this 2.5-inch-diameter tumor, ...

Omega-6 fatty acids—such as those found in corn oil—caused human prostate tumors in cell culture to grow twice as quickly as tumors to which omega-6 fats had not been added, according to a study ...