Stripping leukaemia-initiating cells of their 'invisibility cloak'
Thursday, July 23, 2009 - 12:42
in Health & Medicine
Two new studies reveal a way to increase the body's appetite for gobbling up the cancer stem cells responsible for acute myeloid leukaemia (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 defence, according to the reports in the 24th July issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication...