Monday, June 11, 2007

Cancer stem cells can go it alone

Source: Salk Institute
Date: June 11, 2007

Summary:

At the heart of most, if not all cancers, lie a handful of wayward stem cells that feed the ever growing tumor mass, but their scarcity make it difficult for scientists to study them. Now, times of plenty may lie ahead as a breast cancer cell line -- established long ago -- turned out to behave a lot like cancer stem cells.