Signaling Pathways Point to Vulnerability in Breast Cancer Stem Cells
Thursday, June 9, 2011 - 20:00
in Health & Medicine
Whitehead Institute researchers have identified signals impinging on breast epithelial cells that can induce those cells to acquire and stably display migratory and self-renewing characteristics. Interrupting these and other extracellular signals strips the various types of stem cells of the migratory and self-renewal abilities used by cancer stem cells to seed new tumors.