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Chronic myeloid leukemia: proving ground for cancer stem cells.
Cell - 29 Oct 2004
Daley George Q
Abstract excerpt
A central question in cancer biology is whether malignancy arises in self-renewing tissue stem cells that suffer oncogene activation or in differentiated cells that acquire properties of unremitting self-renewal? In two papers, Weissman and colleagues document both mechanisms: chronic leukemia arising by mutation affecting the hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) and acute leukemia evolving from committed...
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