"Glioblastoma cells" refers to abnormal cells found in a type of brain cancer called glioblastoma. These cells multiply rapidly and uncontrollably, forming tumors in the brain. Glioblastoma cells are highly aggressive and difficult to treat.
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«When we compared the gene signature activity of glioblastoma cells from around 60 patients we found that a large number of patients could be divided into subgroups that showed a correlation between gene activity, tumor cell characteristics and cell of origin similar to the one we had seen in the mouse study. (sciencedaily.com)
Glauco Souza of Nano3D Biosciences in Houston, Texas, and his colleagues incubated human glioblastoma cells from brain tumours with iron oxide and bacteriophages — viruses that infect bacteria and can bind to, but not harm, mammalian cells. (newscientist.com)
The investigators then confirmed that these four factors and their corresponding regulatory elements — the DNA segments to which transcription factors bind — were active in from 2 to 7 percent of human glioblastoma cells, cells that also expressed a known stem cell marker. (sciencedaily.com)