title: Cycling toward elimination of leukemic stem cells.
abstract: In two recent articles in Science Translational Medicine and Nature Biotechnology, Saito et al. (2010) identify a molecular signature of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) stem cells and demonstrate that quiescent AML stem cells become sensitized to chemotherapy after G-CSF stimulation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA 92093, USA.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Goff
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA 92093, USA. Electronic address: cjamieson@ucsd.edu.
authors.forename: Catriona
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jamieson