Sentences with phrase «lacking tumor stem cells»
Glioblastomas in lab dishes and mouse brains are fakes, little Potemkin villages that everyone thought were faithful replicas of human glioblastomas but which, lacking tumor stem cells, were nothing of the kind.
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They find that tumors lacking Numb have increased numbers of cancer stem cells, thus providing the tumor with a higher potential to spread and grow.
In order to identify the cancer stem cells from other cells in the tumor, the research team studied epigenetic mechanisms that distinguish between the least - sorted cells, with endless division properties and a potential to create growth, and the more sorted cells which lack this ability.
Rather, each tumor contains a small subset of cells with stem cell - like capacities that are responsible for initiating and sustaining tumor growth, while the bulk of the tumor cells lacks this ability.
Nevertheless, the field is — also due to the lack of standard conditions for important methods — currently struggling with many issues such as the challenge of developing a clear definition of what tumor stem cells actually are and how they can be identified.