Sentences with phrase «specifically kill cancer stem cells»
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.
To devise a potential new therapy, the investigators engineered a population of bone marrow derived mesenchymal stemcells loaded with oncolytic herpes simplex virus (oHSV), which specificallykills dividing cancercells while sparing normal cells.