Targeting breast cancer stem cells in mice
Wednesday, June 3, 2009 - 20:56
in Health & Medicine
Cancer develops when cells known as cancer stem cells begin to divide in an uncontrolled manner. Researchers from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Centre have identified roles for the gene PTEN, which is already well known for its ability to suppress tumour growth, and for several pathways linked to PTEN in the growth of cells that give rise to breast cancer. The work, published in this week's issue of the open-access journal PLoS Biology, also reports that a drug that interferes with the activity of one of these pathways leads to a 90 percent decrease in the number of cells able to form tumours in mice...
Read the whole article on Science Centric
More from Science Centric
Related
- Targeting breast cancer stem cells in miceMon, 1 Jun 2009, 20:22:53 EDT
- U-M researchers link pathway to breast cancer stem cellsMon, 1 Jun 2009, 20:22:51 EDT
- U-M study: Herceptin targets breast cancer stem cellsWed, 9 Jul 2008, 11:16:16 EDT
- Flatworm helps researchers study stem cells and cancerWed, 17 Sep 2008, 8:29:08 EDT
- Mapping of prostate cancer genes opens the door to new treatmentsMon, 19 May 2008, 19:35:20 EDT