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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Rao W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4405503 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Biomaterials 20140619 27
Cancer stem-like cells (CSCs) are rare subpopulations of cancer cells that are reported to be responsible for cancer resistance and metastasis associated with conventional cancer therapies. Therefore, effective enrichment/culture of CSCs is of importance to both the understanding and treatment of cancer. However, it usually takes approximately 10 days for the widely used conventional approach to enrich CSCs through the formation of CSC-containing aggregates. Here we report the time can be shorte ...[more]