CSC news roundup 2010-01-16

• Medium and Device for Proliferation of Stem Cells and Treatment of Cancer-Related Stem Cell with Resveratrol, United States Patent Application 20100010099. Via FreePatentsOnline.com. Publication Date: January 14, 2010. Assignees: Taipei Veterans General Hospital. [Patentdocs entry].


• Biological and Molecular Heterogeneity of Breast Cancers Correlates with Their Cancer Stem Cell Content by Salvatore Pece and 9 co-authors, including Pier Paolo Di Fiore, Cell 2010(Jan 8); 140(1): 62-73. [Connotea bookmark][FriendFeed entry].


• Regulating Cancer Stem Cells the miR Way by Marcus E Peter, Cell Stem Cell 2010(Jan 8); 6(1): 4-6. [Commentary on Nat Cell Biol 2009(Dec);11(12):1487-95].


• BCR-ABL enhances differentiation of long-term repopulating hematopoietic stem cells by Mirle Schemionek and 16 co-authors, including Steffen Koschmieder, Blood 2010(Jan 6) [Epub ahead of print][PubMed Citation][Connotea bookmark].


• Blocking inflammation receptor kills breast cancer stem cells, study finds, News Release, University of Michigan Health System, January 4, 2010. [About: J Clin Invest doi:10.1172/JCI39397][FriendFeed entry][Another FriendFeed entry].


• Geron Announces Publication of Data on Its Telomerase Inhibitor in Glioblastoma, Business Wire, January 4, 2010. [About: Clin Cancer Res 2010(Jan 1);16(1):154-63][FriendFeed entry].


• Primary brain tumors, neural stem cell, and brain tumor cancer cells: Where is the link? By Isabelle Germano, Victoria Swiss and Patrizia Casaccia, Neuropharmacology 2010(Jan 1) [Epub ahead of print][PubMed Citation][Connotea bookmark].


• Cancer Stem Cell Tumor Model Reveals Invasive Morphology and Increased Phenotypical Heterogeneity by Andrea Sottoriva, Joost JC Verhoeff and 6 co-authors, Cancer Res 2010(Jan 1); 70(1): 46-56. [PubMed Citation][FriendFeed entry][ResearchGATE entry].


• The therapeutic promise of the cancer stem cell concept by Natasha Y Frank, Tobias Schatton and Markus H Frank. Review in J Clin Invest 2010(Jan); 120(1): 41-50. [PubMed Citation][ResearchGATE entry].


• Prognostic impact of ALDH1 in breast cancer: a story of stem cells and tumor microenvironment, Breast Cancer Res Treat 2009(Nov 13) [Epub ahead of print][PubMed Citation][MDLinx Oncology Summary][FriendFeed entry].