Stem Cell Research
Studies from Tufts University Further Understanding of Stem Cell Research
Published in Cancer Weekly, October 25th, 2011
2011 OCT 25 -- According to the authors of recent research published in the journal Progress in Biophysics & Molecular Biology, "Conventional wisdom has long held that once a cancer cell has developed it will inevitably progress to clinical disease. Updating this paradigm, it has more recently become apparent that the tumor interacts with its microenvironment and that some environmental bottlenecks, such as the angiogenic switch, must be overcome for the tumor to progress."
"In parallel, attraction has been drawn to the concept that there is a minority population of cells - the cancer stem cells - bestowed with the exclusive ability to self-renew and...
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