Future treatment? Researchers target gene that controls colon cancer stem cellsGlobalPostTORONTO – Canadian scientists believe they have found the “Achilles heel” of colon cancer stem cells, which appear to be responsible for the recurrence of the disease in many patients who have gone into remission after treatment. Researchers at Toronto … …read more &nbs… Continue reading
Hamilton SpectatorTORONTO – Canadian scientists believe they have found the “Achilles heel” of colon cancer stem cells, which appear to be responsible for the recurrence of the disease in many patients who have gone into remission after treatment. Researchers at Toronto …Colon cancer researchers target stem cells, discover viable new therapeutic pathMedical XpressToronto researchers have … Continue reading
Cancer News Targeting stem cell molecule blocks bowel cancer in miceCancer Research UKBlocking a molecule in tumour-fuelling stem cells could offer a new way to treat bowel cancer, a Canadian study has shown. The researchers found that a molecule called BMI-1 is crucial in helping a small subset of tumour cells to grow, and that … Continue reading
Researchers unlock a new means of growing intestinal stem cellsMIT NewsResearchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have shown that they can grow unlimited quantities of intestinal stem cells, then stimulate them to develop into nearly pure populations of different types of mature intestinal cells. Using these … …read more &nbs… Continue reading
EurekAlert (press release)(TORONTO, Canada – Dec. 1, 2013) – Scientists and surgeons at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre have discovered a promising new approach to treating colorectal cancer by disarming the gene that drives self-renewal in stem cells that are the root cause of …Toronto researchers ‘disable’ gene that controls colon cancer stem cellsCTV NewsScientists target … Continue reading
Colon cancer researchers target stem cells, discover viable new therapeutic pathMedical Xpress“This is the first step toward clinically applying the principles of cancer stem cell biology to control cancer growth and advance the development of durable cures,” says principal investigator Dr. John Dick about the findings published online today in …Toronto researchers have success preventing … Continue reading
Toronto researchers have success preventing colon cancer stem cells from …Toronto StarToronto researchers have identified a way to target colon cancer stem cells with a drug that stops the disease from recurring, which is significant since half of all patients with this disease relapse. Their work may signal a new, more effective model … …read … Continue reading
Human stem cells converted to functional lung cellsPhys.OrgHuman skin cells can now be reprogrammed into induced pluripotent stem cells, which are similar to human embryonic stem cells, and then into functional lung and airway cells. Such cells have potential for use in disease modeling, drug screening, the … and more …read more &nbs… Continue reading