“The approach, at first glance, seems simplistic and naive,” cancer researcher Robert Weinberg of MIT’s Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research writes in an email to The Scientist. “Why should an ...

When you have an allogeneic stem cell transplant, stem cells are harvested (collected) from a donor. For either type of transplant, you first get high-dose chemotherapy to kill cancer cells. Two days ...

11, 2025 — A multi-institutional team developed a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell-based strategy for ... by precisely targeting the elusive cancer stem cells that seed cancer relapses ...

Some of these factors are linked to signalling pathways that had been implicated in the development of cancer ... defects in cell polarity or asymmetric division of neural stem cells result ...

Fingrut, MD, assistant professor of stem cell transplantation and cellular therapy at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Stem cell donations can be done in different ways ...

Cancer cells even evade programmed cell death, despite the fact that their multiple abnormalities would normally make them prime targets for apoptosis. In the late stages of cancer, cells break ...

revealed the identity and differentiation process of human cervical stem cells. The results showed that lactic acid bacteria can inhibit the development of cervical cancer. This joint research ...

In addition, he studies the spindle assembly checkpoint which ensures proper chromosome segregation and is often deregulated in cancer. Joan Massagué, PhD Joan Massagué studies the control of stem ...

facility at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, where they are expanded on a scaffold, a process that takes about two to three weeks.” “The resulting stem cell graft is then brought back to Mass Eye ...

This kind of innovation is why I pursued a career in STEM — it’s tremendously fulfilling to be bringing us closer to a world where people with cancer live better and longer lives. How is ...