Carcinogenesis

Cell Isolation Method Aids in Studying Tumor Development

Published in Cancer Weekly, April 12th, 1999

Investigators at the University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have developed a way to isolate purified cancer cells - an important advance that helps unravel the mysteries of tumor biology and cancer development.

A major obstacle for studying the molecular changes characteristic of tumor cells is the presence of large numbers of non-malignant cells within tumors. Current methods for isolation of purified tumor cells are cumbersome or permit limited numbers of assays.

Now a new simple method of preparing tissue samples, developed by a research team led by Dr. Adi Gazdar, UT Southwestern professor of pathology and associate...

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