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Summing up cancer stem cells

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Are current cancer drugs targeted at the wrong kinds of cells? A pioneering approach to the development of treatments uses a mathematical model to follow how different types of tumour cells respond to therapy.

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  1. Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 2XY, UK

    Brian J. P. Huntly & D. Gary Gilliland

  2. Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 02115, Massachusetts, USA

    Brian J. P. Huntly & D. Gary Gilliland

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Huntly, B., Gilliland, D. Summing up cancer stem cells. Nature 435, 1169–1170 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/4351169a

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