Keeping the kraken asleep: Insight into the role of stem cells in leukemia
Tuesday, January 27, 2015 - 14:30
in Health & Medicine
Despite enormous progress in cancer therapy, many patients still relapse because their treatment addresses the symptoms of the disease rather than the cause, the so-called stem cells. New work has given a tantalizing clue to a solution. Scientists report that the cell-cycle kinase CDK6 is required for activation of the stem cells responsible for causing leukemia.