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Triggering cancer cells to become normal cells – how stem cell therapies can provide new ways to stop tumors from spreading or growing back

  • Written by Huanhuan Joyce Chen, Assistant Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
imageThis image shows pancreatic cancer cells (blue) growing, encased within membranes (red).Min Yu/Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC via NIH/Flickr, CC BY-NC

How cells become cancerous is a process researchers are still trying to fully understand. Generally, normal cells grow and multiply through...

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