The Dynamic Identity of Intestinal Cancer Stem Cells

Publication date: 1 June 2017
Source:Cell Stem Cell, Volume 20, Issue 6
Author(s): Piero Dalerba
Elimination of self-renewing cancer stem cells (CSCs) is necessary to permanently eradicate malignant tissues. In a recent article in Nature, de Sousa e Melo et al. (2017) reveal that intestinal tumors can contain dynamic pools of functionally distinct CSC populations, which seem to interconvert depending on the host tissue microenvironment.

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Elimination of self-renewing cancer stem cells (CSCs) is necessary to permanently eradicate malignant tissues. In a recent article in Nature, de Sousa e Melo et al. (2017) reveal that intestinal tumors can contain dynamic pools of functionally distinct CSC populations, which seem to interconvert depending on the host tissue microenvironment.


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