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"Destemming" Cancer Stem Cells
25 Sept 2007
Abstract excerpt
Cancer stem cells have been variously defined as cells within a cancer that have the exclusive ability to self-renew and to differentiate into the heterogeneous lineages of cancer cells that comprise the tumor. Interest in cancer stem cells is currently high, arising from recent reports identifying cell surface markers that can be used to sort such cells from primary human tumors. However, use of the term cancer...
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