When Gupta's team added salinomycin to cultured human breast - cancer cells, it was about 100 times as effective
at killing the cancer stem cells as popular anti-cancer drug, paclitaxel.
Not exact matches
Brain
cancer stem cells (left) are
killed by Zika virus infection (image
at right shows
cells after Zika treatment).
The story describes work by a team
at the Broad Institute, who reported in the journal
Cell that they had identified compounds that specifically
kill cancer stem cells.