Cancer stem cells identified in single-cell study of brain tumors
A new study of oligodendroglioma at single-cell resolution suggests that stem cells may drive cancer proliferation.
November 2, 2016

Credit: Image by Lauren Solomon, Broad Communications. Micrograph courtesy of Nephron, Wikimedia Commons.
Researchers used single-cell genomic analysis to look at the individual cells at work in oligodendroglioma, a relatively slow-growing but incurable form of brain cancer.