Stem Cell

Stem Cell

Stem Cell Cancer Induction

With this in mind, researchers at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders in Bethesda, Maryland, began looking for molecular similarities between these two kinds of cell. They found that cancer cells and ES cells both express a protein called nucleostemin. The exact function of this protein is not yet known, but it appears to be a molecular switch that controls cell division. If it turns out that cancer cells escape the normal inhibitions of the cell cycle by activating nucleostemin, this would imply that stem cells have a similar ability, and thus will have ...