«We are very excited about this tumor model as it mimics the developmental environment of a pediatric or adolescent human brain tumor,» he says. (uofmhealth.org)
La Jolla, CA — Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have developed a versatile mouse model of glioblastoma — the most common and deadly brain cancer in humans — that closely resembles the development and progression of human brain tumors that arise naturally. (salk.edu)
In their paper receiving advance online publication in Nature, a team led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard identifies for the first time cancer stem cells and their differentiated progeny in human brain tumor samples. (sciencedaily.com)