The most dangerous cancer cells are actually the ones that are more like stem cells, which have this ability to produce themselves over and over again. More and more cancer biologists say stem-cell-like cells in cancers are the most dangerous.
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Related I was working with stem cells as part of a NASA programme. We realised that the science of stem-cell... PATRICK SOON-SHIONG Well, there are two kinds of stem cells: adult stem cells, which you can get from any part of a grow... MORT KONDRACKE When we talk about stem cells, we are actually talking about a complicated series of things, includi... DAVID BALTIMORE We believe that these types of cells are actually more primitive and more flexible than the adult st... DAN COLLINS Both in Britain and America, huge publicity has been given to stem cells, particularly embryonic ste... ROBERT WINSTON Some of the early embryonic stem cell passages were relatively aberration-free, at least using the t... JOHNS HOPKINS If stem cells divide equally, so both daughter cells look more or less the same, each one becomes an... SAM KEAN They'll have their own bone marrow harvested. Stem cells will come over to this new facility and pro... GEORGE RUSSELL The Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act would expand research on embryonic stem cells by increasing t... STEVE ISRAEL Cancer essentially lives in us and becomes activated at some point, and then cells begin to psychoti... EVE ENSLER The drugs that are being developed are being developed to target specific protein or enzyme systems ... DAVID GREENWALD These studies provide a way to make cells do what we want them to do, instead of simply putting stem... MARK NOBLE So many cancer therapies are as poisonous to healthy cells as they are to cancer cells. A therapy th... CRAIG MEYERS Stem cells tend to be smaller and have a slightly more compact shape than the differentiated cells. ... SEAN PALECEK Estrogen causes breast cells to proliferate, and the more the cells proliferate, the more likely a m... LESLIE BERNSTEIN Some humans are like the cancer cells for the planet earth! PRATIK SHARDA There are currently 58 diseases that are being treated using adult stem cells so the issue of stems ... JOSEPHINE QUINTAVALLE There is more to embryonic stem cells than what is highlighted in the news. AJAR KOCHAR I believe that we are going to have a much deeper appreciation of what kinds of abnormalities in can... HAROLD E. VARMUS Recent work using neural stem cells has indicated that stem cell transplantation to the injured spin... IRA BLACK Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for ... PAUL BERG Stem cells are probably going to be extremely useful. JOSEPH MURRAY We want to understand how stem cells make this decision to differentiate or stay stem cells. What si... HARVEY LODISH We still think that adult stem cell research is preferable to embryonic stem cells, but we don't hav... ELISABETH GEHRER Scientists have stated that embryonic stem cells provide the best opportunity for devising unique tr... ELIOT ENGEL Stem cells are being used for anti-aging, and the University of Miami is doing a study about that to... PETER NYGARD Adult stem cells have shown great potential and have effectively helped patients. Another alternativ... JIM RYUN The best news is that natural killer cells are actually very efficient immune cells that fight virus... DR. BIBIANA BIELEKOVA Our research team made patient-specific embryonic stem cells and we have the technology to produce t... HWANG WOO SUK Most people lump viruses and bacteria together. Actually the two have little in common - viruses are... BETSY BAUMAN In the laboratory, our researchers have been very impressed with the ability of these extracts to sl... AARON KATZ I apologize for creating this uproar both in and out of Korea. The fact remains that our research te... HWANG WOO SUK The first misconception is that embryonic stem cell research is not legal. The fact is, embryonic st... VIRGINIA FOXX With this state money, we will be able to work with human embryonic stem cells lines that we cannot ... DIANE KRAUSE In cancer we're talking about understanding the process by which these cells malfunction, and hopefu... DR. GENEROSA GRANA I definitely have the source technology to produce tailored embryonic stem cells. I can replicate th... HWANG WOO SUK Even the dumbest stem cell is smarter than the smartest neurobiologist in growing adequate concentra... EVAN SNYDER The umbilical cord matrix cells have major advantages over other stem-cell sources, ... They can be ... DUANE DAVIS I think what we're all learning now is that stem cells, regardless of source, are simply far more fl... IRA BLACK Adult stem cells tend not to form tumors. VIRGINIA FOXX One of the first papers I wrote at the University of Wisconsin, in 1977, was on stem cells. I realiz... BRUCE LIPTON When the use of these stem cells is limited to a particular country, it takes much too long to creat... HWANG WOO SUK You don't want to inhibit cell division. You want to inhibit cell division in the cancer cells, ... TIM HUNT When are we going to say cancer is cured? I'm not sure when that will happen, if that will happe... DAVID BALTIMORE Broccoli is incredible. It can prevent DNA damage and metastatic cancer spread; activate defences ag... MICHAEL GREGER Dr. Alt's discoveries have led to a greater understanding of the ways that cancers of immune cells d... MARSHALL LICHTMAN There are some immediate experiments to see if we can use the same cocktails of growth factors to ex... HARVEY LODISH We know cancer is caused ultimately via a link between the environment and genes. There are genes in... SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE Tobacco smoke contains chemicals that weaken the body's immune system, making it more susceptibl... MICHAEL GREGER None of the stem cells were patient-specific. ROE JUNG HYE For two years, terrorist cells have been spreading like cancer cells. Any doctor who let that happen... EDWARD KENNEDY Throughout our lifetimes, we are constantly regenerating new brain cells in the hippocampus, a proce... DAVID PERLMUTTER This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck ... HAROLD PINTER Stem cells have the potential to be used to treat and better understand some of the world's most... MARK UDALL One of the longstanding problems in medicine is how to cure cancer without harming normal body tissu... HONGJIE DAI This new discovery gives an indication as to what we have always suspected; that cord blood stem cel... DWIGHT BRUNOEHLER I had believed the stem cells existed until recently. AHN CURIE Through their work with fetal tissue, researchers hope to find ways to harness embryonic stem cells ... TOM ALLEN The actual cells that we transplanted, the human cells, are the ones that are making myelin. We're e... AILEEN ANDERSON This illustrates that injecting human stem cells into mouse brains doesn't restructure the brain. FRED GAGE So why in the world would anyone support the unethical, failed use of embryonic stem cells instead o... VIRGINIA FOXX This work shows that stem cells can be used as drug delivery vehicles in the brain. CLIVE SVENDSEN Stem cells with DNA matching with patient tissues regarding the 2005 paper were not found. And it is... ROE JUNG HYE In a culture dish, stem cells from fat can acquire properties that are similar to bone, cartilage, n... ADAM KATZ The average person doesn't understand what a stem cell is. There's a lack of health literacy... RICHARD CARMONA Exactly 100 years after Einstein first explained this effect, we have found a way to make it useful ... GELSOMINA DE STASIO There is no doubt that we produced 11 patient-specific stem cells and possess the core technology to... HWANG WOO SUK Our findings demonstrate that RAC GTPase proteins are essential for injected stem cells to migrate i... DAVID WILLIAMS The model using the PC3 prostate cancer cells is irrelevant. So the implications of the findings to ... AJIT K. VERMA We want to believe it. We all want to believe that somebody has worked out the basics of how to prod... DR. HARVEY MARCOVITCH open to the scientific public, and not just the commercial public, the ability to use these stem cel... IRVING WEISSMAN Mistakes [were] made, human errors, in taking photographs and in the preservation of the stem cells. HWANG WOO SUK They demonstrate that you can isolate the equivalent embryonic stem cells by alternative methods tha... DR GEORGE DALEY We believe that AAV-2 recognizes that the cancer cells are abnormal and destroys them. This suggests... CRAIG MEYERS Stem cell research is the key to developing cures for degenerative conditions like Parkinson's a... STEPHEN HAWKING It is also able to make prostate cancer cells undergo apoptosis -- programmed cell death -- and the ... HASAN MUKHTAR It is also able to make prostate cancer cells undergo apoptosis -- programmed cell death -- and the ... HASAN MUKHTAR The model using the PC3 prostate cancer cells is irrelevant. So, the implications of the findings to... AJIT K. VERMA In most designs, the cells are stacked so that the anode of one is wired to the cathode of the next ... KENNETH LUX This is the safest way clinically to increase stem cell circulation, far safer than any of the pharm... STEPHEN THOM Stem cells are for everyone, including the MTV generation. Sabrina has the charisma, personality and... BERNIE SIEGEL Normal levels of telomerase didn't lengthen short telomeres in our mice, so the longer the telomeres... CAROL GREIDER There are over 7,000 different types of proteins in typical eukaryotic cells; the total number depen... ADA YONATH Most of our brain cells are glial cells, once thought to be mere support cells, but now understood a... THOMAS R. INSEL Pluripotent cells have the ability to grow into any cell in the body. NATHAN DEAL We now can visualize non-invasively and with sensitivity individual cells and their movement to targ... CHIEN HO There are no bona fide treatments available for embryonic stem cells. There is nothing in the labora... MICHAEL BURGESS Technology for patient-specific embryonic stem cells belongs to South Korea. And you will find out t... HWANG WOO SUK After three different institutes finished analyzing DNA fingerprints from number 2 and 3 stem cell l... ROE JUNG HYE Adult stem cells are also problematic, as they are difficult to identify, purify and grow, and simpl... ELIOT ENGEL This is sham therapy. It has absolutely no effect on cancer cells. And tragically, some consumers lo... HOWARD BEALES Every single cluster of stem cells has a different contraction rate--its own little rhythm. It's kin... CHARLES CARLSON We are at the vanguard of discovering the endless benefits of nanotechnology for applications like t... DAVID REJESKI This relies on generating an embryo and destroying the embryo to remove the stem cells. Some people ... DR GEORGE DALEY This relies on generating an embryo and destroying the embryo to remove the stem cells. Some people ... GEORGE DALEY Our experiments are very clear. You inhibit this gene and you get a clone that has no way of ever im... RUDOLF JAENISCH FTIs, originally developed for cancer, are capable of reversing the dramatic nuclear structure abnor... FRANCIS COLLINS The problem we have with this particular type of research, ... is that you have to kill a person to ... JUDIE BROWN The training grants, while they're in service of research by training people to work with stem cells... IRVING WEISSMAN When you look at cells that don't yet have a specific function – aren't differentiated, compared t... SOPHIE LELIèVRE
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