UT Dallas Scientists Isolate Cancer Stem Cells Using Novel Method (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Dallas

UT Dallas Scientists Isolate Cancer Stem Cells Using Novel Method

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Researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas have devised a new technique to isolate cancer stem cells, which are thought to form the root of many hard-to-treat metastasized cancers -- a significant step toward developing new drugs that might target these cells. The researchers used 40,000 tiny plastic beads (blue), each coated with a unique chemical compound, to identify one compound that bound only to breast cancer stem cells (red).

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