Investigators Use Stem Cells to Study Rare Pediatric Brain Tumors

December 2, 2014

(MSKCC) – Since the late 1990s, when researchers first reported a technique to isolate and grow human embryonic stem cells, known as ES cells, in culture, experts have deliberated the many possible uses for them. Among these are developing better systems for studying disease processes and creating new cells and tissues to replace those lost to disease or injury. In a paper published recently in Science, a team from Memorial Sloan Kettering and elsewhere has reported the first-ever genetically engineered model of cancer created from human ES cells.