If my Swiss cheese like memory doesn't fail me: I think it was Israeli scientists who were first able to separate regular cancer cells and stem cancer cells in

If my Swiss cheese like memory doesn't fail me: I think it was Israeli scientists who were first able to separate regular cancer cells and stem cancer cells in the lab. It turns out stem cancer makes regular cancer. If you implant regular into a cancer free mouse it almost never develops cancer. But implant stem and you've got cancer. Further more, regular c. cells grow too fast and are thus more susceptible to treatment then healthy cells. But stem c. cells don't, and they often survive treatment. And stem c. cells tend to be in the center of tumors, surrounded by and protected by regular c. cells. Makes you be in awe of cancer a bit a more doesn't it? I am not impressed by promising results in mice, mice are a terrible model for human cancer. But what I found interesting is this: They then used rapid screening techniques to test 16,000 commercially available chemical compounds. This is a brute force search and I hope we see more of it. It can be automated and done by machines.