Disease Focus: Cancer

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Genetic Molecule Enables Safer Method For Creating iPS Cells

Researchers funded by CIRM developed a novel way of generating induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells. The technique involves a genetic molecule called a microRNA to activate genes required to reprogram the adult cell to a state similar to an embryonic stem cell. The authors think microRNAs could make existing methods for creating those cells – […]

Catriona Jamieson Talks About Therapies Based on Cancer Stem Cells

Blue H2O Productions In recent years researchers have found cancer stem cells at the heart of blood cancers as well as some cancers of the brain, breast, colon, head and neck, and others. In those cancers that have cancer stem cells, it’s the cancer stem cells that appear to drive the cancer, multiplying endlessly and […]