Source: Technology Review
March/April 2006
Scientists at MIT's Center for Cancer Research have discovered stem cells -- cells that do not yet have a specific function -- in the lung. Not only is this the first time anyone has found stem cells in the lung, but the team claims that these cells could be the precursor for lung cancer, the cancer that causes the greatest number of deaths in the U.S. each year. In the future, locating the cells could be a new approach to identifying the disease at its earliest stage.
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