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Cancer stem cells--normal stem cells "Jedi" that went over to the "dark side".
1 Jan 2005
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Evidence has accumulated that cancer develops from a population of quiescent tissue committed/pluripotent stem cells (TCSC/PSC) or cells developmentally closely related to them that are distributed in various organs. To support this notion, stem cells (SC) are long lived cells and thus may become the subject of accumulating mutations that are crucial for initiation/progression of cancer. More important, they may...
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