Junior research alliance
Differentiation landscape of acute myeloid leukemia charted with new tool
CloneTracer analyzes tumor evolution from single cell data: Researchers from the e:Med junior research alliance LeukoSyStem have developed a new method to distinguish between cancerous and healthy stem cells and progenitor cells from samples of patients with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), a disease driven by malignant blood stem cells that have historically been difficult to identify. The findings, published in the journal Cell Stem Cell, pave the way for the development of new techniques to predict whether patients will respond to chemotherapy.
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