You are correct, cancer cells can behave like stem cells. In fact, there are actually cancer stem cells (CSC). The CSCs are a small population of cancer cells within tumors capable of self-renewal and differentiation. These cells have can be resistant to many cancer treatments like radiation and chemotherapies. While they have the self-renewal capacity, they pose a health threat since they are the cells driving the tumor formation.
Can/Have cancer cells be/been used in stem cell culture lines?
Since Cancer cells have unlimited growth potential, can they be induced towards totipotency and pluripotency? \nIf so, can cancer cells be used in stem cell culture because of similar properties of unlimited replication?\nCan they be used in cell lines to culture viruses even? \n
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