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Cancer Stem Cells Created With New Technique Friday, April 11, 2008 - Iddo Genuth Home >> Headlines >> Cancer Research   
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With a bit of genetic trickery, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have turned normal skin cells into cancer stem cells, a step that will make these naturally rare cells easier to study. Cancer stem cells are thought to be the ones that drive a cancer, and are therefore the targets of any cancer therapy that must kill them in order to be effective. (source: med.stanford.edu)
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