TY - JOUR T1 - NEw screening tool identifies chemicals that may destroy cancer stem cells AU - Hampton T Y1 - 2009/11/11 N1 - 10.1001/jama.2009.1589 JO - JAMA SP - 1958 EP - 1958 VL - 302 IS - 18 N2 - “Relative to the other cells in a tumor, cancer stem cells are resistant to many kinds of chemotherapy drugs and to radiation treatment; therefore, it is important to find new therapies that specifically target this class of cell,” said first author Piyush Gupta, PhD, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. SN - 0098-7484 M3 - doi: 10.1001/jama.2009.1589 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2009.1589 ER -