News tagged with cancer stem
Mechanism in cells that generate malignant brain tumors may offer target for gene therapy
Oct 24, 2008 |
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Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute who first isolated cancer stem cells in adult brain tumors in 2004 have now identified a molecular mechanism that is involved in the development ...
Scientists isolate cancer stem cells
Sep 11, 2008 |
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After years of working toward this goal, scientists at the OU Cancer Institute have found a way to isolate cancer stem cells in tumors so they can target the cells and kill them, keeping cancer from returning.
Stem cell indicator for bowel cancer should lead to better survival rates
Aug 20, 2008 |
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Stem cell scientists have developed a more accurate way of identifying aggressive forms of bowel cancer, which should eventually lead to better treatment and survival rates. Bowel cancer is the third most common cancer in ...
Vitamin A pushes breast cancer to form blood vessel cells
Jul 16, 2008 |
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Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center have discovered that vitamin A, when applied to breast cancer cells, turns on genes that can push stem cells embedded in a tumor to morph into endothelial cells. These cells ...
Herceptin targets breast cancer stem cells
Jul 09, 2008 |
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A gene that is overexpressed in 20 percent of breast cancers increases the number of cancer stem cells, the cells that fuel a tumor's growth and spread, according to a new study from the University of Michigan Comprehensive ...
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