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Studies Reveal Leukemia-Initiating Cells Monday, July 27, 2009 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Cancer Research   
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Two new studies reveal a way to increase the body's appetite for gobbling up the cancer stem cells responsible for acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a form of cancer with a particularly poor survival rate. The key is targeting a protein on the surface of those cells that sends a "don't eat me" signal to the macrophage immune cells that serve as a first line of defense, according to the reports in the July 24th issue of the journal Cell. (source: sciencedaily.com)
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