Another is that the transplanted bits of
tumor act nothing like cancers in actual human brains, Fine and colleagues reported in 2006: Real - life
glioblastomas grow and spread and resist treatment because they
contain what are called
tumor stem cells, but
tumor stem cells don't grow well in the lab, so they don't get transplanted into those mouse brains.
tumors from neural stem cells also
contained more
glioblastoma stem cells, cells that are believed to give rise to
tumor recurrence after therapy,» says Lene Uhrbom, senior lecturer at the Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology and lead author of the study.