{"id":646,"date":"2014-02-23T20:16:04","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T01:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=646"},"modified":"2014-04-02T11:55:16","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T16:55:16","slug":"growing-leukemia-stem-cells-in-the-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/growing-leukemia-stem-cells-in-the-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing leukemia stem cells in the lab<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_648\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Cellules_Leucemie_Myeloide_Aigue.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-648\" class=\"size-full wp-image-648\" alt=\"Top: Acute myeloid leukemia cells presenting anomalies in standard growth conditions. Below: Acute myeloid leukemia cells preserving their leukemic cell features following in vitro culture with the two chemical molecules referred to in the study cited.(Credit: Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer)\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Cellules_Leucemie_Myeloide_Aigue.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-648\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Top: Acute myeloid leukemia cells presenting anomalies in standard growth conditions. Below: Acute myeloid leukemia cells preserving their leukemic cell features following in vitro culture with the two chemical molecules referred to in the study cited.(Credit: Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Previous attempts to grow leukemia stem cells outside the body have fallen short, as the cells lose their cancer stem cell characteristics. Now, scientists have found a way to grow and maintain \u2018healthy\u2019 leukemia cancer stem cells outside of the body. This opens the way to screens for drugs that can block the cells\u2019 ability to grow. This finding was made possible by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bclq.org\/en\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Quebec Leukemia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nmeth\/journal\/v11\/n4\/full\/nmeth.2847.html\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in the journal\u00a0<i>Nature Methods\u00a0<\/i>on\u00a0<strong>February 23, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iric.ca\/recherche\/chercheurs-principaux\/guy-sauvageau\/\" target=\"_blank\">Guy Sauvageau<\/a>, University of Montreal<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous attempts to grow leukemia stem cells outside the body have fallen short, as the cells lose their cancer stem cell characteristics. Now, scientists have found a way to grow and maintain \u2018healthy\u2019 leukemia cancer stem cells outside of the body. This opens the way to screens for drugs that can block the cells\u2019 ability [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":648,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[113,49,51,53,849],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-tip","tag-biology","tag-cancer","tag-health","tag-medicine","tag-quebec-en"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Cellules_Leucemie_Myeloide_Aigue.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-aq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions\/695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}