Cancer stem cells: mirage or reality?

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Published in Nat Med on September 04, 2009

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Piyush B Gupta1, Christine L Chaffer, Robert A Weinberg

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1: Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

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