The Use of Tumour Spheroids in Cancer Research

Studies show that stem cell functions continue to be governed by circadian rhythms during ageing, but their rhythms become devoted to tissue repair and not to the maintenance of tissue tone.

John Wikswo, Director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Integrative Biosystems Research and Education, reports on the development of a microfluidic device containing human cells which can model the blood-brain barrier.

Researchers have traced the origins of relapse in acute myeloid leukemia and identified two distinct stem-cell like populations from which relapse can arise.