text: Basic research into stem cells has the promise of revolutionizing the treatment of disease and the maintenance of destroyed tissues and organs. In addition, it turns out cancer tumors have stem cells too. If you remove a tumor and miss a cancerous stem cell, you still have cancer; one cell can re-grow the entire tumor. But if you leave the tumor and kill just the cancerous stem cells, the tumor is absorbed by the body and you're cured! If we can find out enough about these "bad" stem cells, we might just cure certain forms of cancer. We've learned much about the signaling proteins that cells and tumors use but the system is unbelievably complex. It'll take time, money and an enlightened attitude to see us through.\n\nhttp://www.genomenewsnetwork.org/articles/03_03/stem_c.shtml\nhttp://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/Press_releases/2004/11_22_04.html