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

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