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Stem cells that release cancer-killing toxins offer new brain tumor treatment – Medical News Today

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2014-10-27 NEWS

Medical News Today

Stem cells that release cancer-killing toxins offer new brain tumor treatment
Medical News Today
Led by Dr. Khalid Shah, a neuroscientist at Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Harvard University, in Cambridge, MA, and also of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston, MA, the scientists found the toxin-releasing stem cells eliminated cancer cells
Cancer-killing stem cells engineered in labBBC News
‘Future of battle with cancer’: Toxic stem cells to fight tumorsRT
Toxin-secreting stem cells kill brain tumors in mice: Humans next?Tech Times
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2014-10-26 NEWS

Tech Times

Cancer-killing stem cells engineered in lab a step forward for cancer therapy
Tech Times
The solution, the researchers report in the journal Stem Cells, was to create stem cells possessing a mutation that keeps the toxins from acting inside the cell. “Now, we have toxin-resistant stem cells that can make and release cancer-killing drugs

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2014-10-26 NEWS

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‘Future of battle with cancer’: Toxic stem cells to fight tumors
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A team of Harvard scientists has successfully developed special stem cells that produce toxins which kill cancerous cells, causing no harm whatsoever to healthy ones. “Now, we have toxin-resistant stem cells that can make and release cancer-killing
Cancer-killing stem cells engineered in labBBC News
Toxin-secreting stem cells kill brain tumors in mice: Humans next?Tech Times
Stem cells that can kill cancer have been engineered by scientistsThe Independent
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2014-10-26 NEWS

RIA Novosti

Scientists Create Stem Cells Capable of Targeting and Killing Brain Cancer
RIA Novosti
MOSCOW, October 26 (RIA Novosti) – A team of scientists from Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute have developed a new method of fighting cancer with specially-created stem cells, which are capable of secreting a toxin

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2014-10-26 NEWS

Scleroderma patients seek experimental US stem cell therapy
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During the treatment, the patient’s stem cells are harvested, and then the patient’s over-active immune system is destroyed with powerful chemotherapy drugs. Doctors then re-program the patient’s immune system with the harvested stem cells, in the