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Article: MICHIGAN TEAM SINGLES OUT CANCER STEM CELLS FOR ATTACK

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April 5, 2006
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The University of Michigan issued the following press release:

Close on the heels of the discovery that cancer has its own rejuvenating stem cells, a University of Michigan research team has found a way to distinguish these bad actors from the normal stem cells that they so closely resemble - and to kill the cancer stem cells without harming the normal stem cells in the same tissue.

The progression of some cancers, including leukemia, appears to be driven by cancer stem cells - rare cancer cells that have a greater ability to proliferate than other cancer cells and which are therefore the most malignant. To have any hope of curing cancer, it is necessary to develop therapies that kill these ...

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