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Published online 13 August 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2009.822
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A screen for cancer killers
Method identifies drugs that target the cells behind cancer growth.
A new approach for identifying drugs that specifically attack cancer stem cells, the cellular culprits that are thought to start and maintain tumour growth, could change the way that drug companies and scientists search for therapies in the war against cancer.
"We now have a systematic method that had not been previously known that allows us to find agents that target cancer stem cells," says Piyush Gupta of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and first author of the study, published online today in Cell1.
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I cannot wait for the success of this fantastic experiment-the sooner,the better! If so, the breast cancer,even diverse cancers,would remove the horrible impression from human's mind or at least,scientists could step an effective road to fight against the deadly disease.
high-tech is good luck for human beings.the more fatastic technique ,the less the human beings' suffers.the GOV should finance the program ,the scientist be able create the miracle drugs.
I urge someone try these CSC-selective anti-cancer drugs on iPSCs. I bet they will kill iPSCs as well.