Don't Stop Re-healin'! Cancer as an Ongoing Stem Cell Affair.

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Stem Cell Program, Divisions of Hematology/Oncology and Pulmonary and Respiratory Diseases, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Electronic address:

Published: May 2017

Tumors have long been suspected of hijacking stem cell mechanisms used for tissue maintenance and repair. Ge et al. now show that skin tumors exhibit merged chromatin profiles from distinct stem cell lineages. This "lineage infidelity" recreates a state akin to transient wound repair that persists to maintain uncontrolled growth.

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