{"id":16577,"date":"2014-03-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/actualites-et-publications\/major-breakthrough-thanks-to-leukemic-stem-cells\/"},"modified":"2014-03-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T04:00:00","slug":"major-breakthrough-thanks-to-leukemic-stem-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/news-and-publications\/major-breakthrough-thanks-to-leukemic-stem-cells\/","title":{"rendered":"Major breakthrough thanks to leukemic stem cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Guy Sauvageau\u2019 team from the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) achieved a significant breakthrough thanks to the laboratory growth of leukemic stem cells, which will speed up the development of new cancer drugs.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/24562423\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent study published in <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/24562423\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nature Methods<\/a>,<\/em> the scientists describe how they succeeded in identifying two new chemical compounds that allow to maintain leukemic stem cells in culture when these are grown outside the body.<\/p>\n<p>This important advance opens the way to the identification of new cancer drugs to fight acute myeloid leukemia, one of the most aggressive forms of blood cancer.<\/p>\n<p>This research project was financed by G\u00e9nome Qu\u00e9bec and Genome Canada as part of the <strong>Genomics and Personalized Health Competition.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genomequebec.com\/157-en\/project\/innovative-chemo-genomic-tools-to-improve-clinical-outcome-in-acute-myeloid-leukemia.html\">Innovative chemo-genomic tools to improve clinical outcome in acute myeloid leukemia<\/a><strong> <br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iric.ca\/en\/2014\/03\/major-breakthrough-in-developing-new-cancer-drugs-capturing-leukemic-stem-cells\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the press release<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Guy Sauvageau\u2019 team from the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) achieved a significant breakthrough thanks to the laboratory growth of leukemic stem cells, which will speed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nouvelles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}