Stem Cells At The Core of Cancer? 159
davecb writes "The Globe and Mail reports that cancers have at their core a small number of stem cells, without which they cannot spread or reoccur.
From the article: 'A spate of new discoveries about the basic biology of cancer is pushing researchers toward an astonishing conclusion: For decades, efforts to cure the disease may have targeted the wrong cells.' If true, the discoveries of Canadian and Italian research groups may give us a new
path to selectively attack cancer."
fox is spinning so hard i'm dizzy (Score:5, Insightful)
So how long until we have some partisan halfwit wielding this nugget of information in his crusade against stem-cell research?
Re:fox is spinning so hard i'm dizzy (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:And this is useful, how? (Score:3, Insightful)
Did you at least read the scientific paper, or did you base your conclusion on an article from the Globe and Mail?
Re:Fundamental Flaw (Score:2, Insightful)
I thought "check mate" came from the Persian "Shah Mat", which means "the King is dead".
Re:Operation: Eradication (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Seems too basic to be noticed only now (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Vitamine B17 (Score:2, Insightful)