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Repositioned to kill stem cells

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Chemotherapy-resistant cancer stem cells make it hard to cure many forms of the disease. Repositioning an existing drug to tackle this problem could significantly improve treatment for one form of leukaemia. See Letter p.380

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Figure 1: Targeting leukaemic stem cells in chronic myeloid leukaemia.

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  1. Tessa Holyoake and David Vetrie are at the Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 0ZD (T.H.) and Glasgow G61 1QH (D.V.), UK.,

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Holyoake, T., Vetrie, D. Repositioned to kill stem cells. Nature 525, 328–329 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature15213

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