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...pressing priorities. Climate change can always be passed off to the next year, the next generation. But not any longer. James Hansen, one of the world's most respected climate scientists, believes that we have just a decade - when today's college students will be reaching their 30s - to stem the growth in carbon emissions, or the world will be changed irrevocably. Youth have a right to speak out, using organizations like Focus the Nation, and they must do so. "Young people have the moral authority," says Goodstein. "This is not about us, my generation - this is about their future...
...think that this is the first evidence of being able to specifically target a cancer stem cell,” Scadden said. “The study shows that targeting them might actually matter...
Polyak also said that more work needs to be done before cancer therapy can focus solely on targeting cancer stem cells...
...Most people—including myself—believe that to eliminate the tumor, one has to kill both the stem-like and the more differentiated cancer cells, but we may need to use approaches that are specific for each,” Polyak said...
...according to Frank, even in ideal circumstances, it would still take two to three years before a drug targeting cancer stem cells could be tested on humans...