June 24, 2018

Irving Weissman (Stanford University School of Medicine, USA) “Normal and Neoplastic Stem Cells” Marrow or MPB (mobilized peripheral blood) Mixture of cells: HSCs, T cells, cancer cells Deplete mature blood cells by labeling with magnetic antibodies Pure HSCs for transplantation 250,000 fold depletion an ever cells or T cells Unwanted cells : cancer cells, T […]

Patrick Moore (University of Pittsburgh, USA)  “Why Do Viruses Cause Cancer?” PubMed Link (pdf 2803) Viruses do not “mean” to cause cancer • Cancer endangers virus as well as host • Viruses non-transmissible in tumors (eg latency, pseudo-latency) • Virus populations Limited resource hypothesis: enhancing lyric virus replication tumor virus targets at G1 phase Infection is