Targeting cancer's 'queen bees' with better tissue modeling
Monday, October 28, 2013 - 06:30
in Biology & Nature
In many types of cancer, standard chemotherapy cures only a fraction of patients. Treatments are often too toxic to normal cells and they fail to selectively kill cancer's stem cells, which can survive treatment and, like the queen bee of a beehive, give rise to new malignant cells.