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Stamping Bar Codes on Cells to Solve Medical Mysteries

By tracking every cell in an organism, scientists are working out why certain cancer treatments fail, which could lead to improved medicine.

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Hasnain says:

Well this is really cool.

“Scientists discovered that the cancer does not always originate in the mature bone marrow cells where it is found and where textbooks say it originates.

The results are too new to have led to patient therapies. But they are leading to provocative discoveries that are expected to inspire novel methods for treating diseases.”

Posted on 2021-12-01T06:34:25+0000