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Published online 25 October 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news041025-6
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Stem cells home in on brain cancer
Arming embryonic stem cells with anti-cancer agent could help create new therapies.
Human embryonic stem cells could be used to seek out and destroy a fatal form of brain cancer, according to US researchers.
Experiments in mice with brain tumours show that the cells will migrate across the brain and deliver an anticancer payload.
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