Survival of the Fittest: Darwinian Selection Underpins Chemotherapy Resistance in AML.

MacPherson, Laura; Dawson, Mark A · Cell Stem Cell · 2017

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Abstract

Intratumor heterogeneity driving therapeutic resistance is a major challenge in cancer management. Recently in Nature, Shlush et al. (2017) provide a tour de force of genomics coupled to functional assays to demonstrate that resistance emerges from a pre-existing subpopulation of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cells with a stem cell transcription program.

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