Newly created cancer stem cells could aid breast cancer research

Scientists have created breast cancer stem cells in culture by isolating and transforming a particular population of cells from normal human breast tissue. After being injected with just 100 of these transformed cells, mice develop tumors that metastasize. When scientists performed the same transformation process on a slightly different population of cells from the identical human breast tissue, the resulting cancer cells were 10,000 times less potent as tumor initiators and could not move to other tissues.

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