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January 9, 1995 8:00 AM UTC

Harvard University researchers published in Science evidence that a strategy to kill off other cells will leave only the stem cells.

The cytokines interleukin-3 and Kit ligand were used to functionally activate all but the stem cells, which lack receptors for these activators, and cell death was induced in all proliferating cells with the antimetabolite 5-fluorouracil (5-FU). ...