The BBC reports that “Stem Cells ‘Prompt cancer spread’”. This is a fantastically misleading headline. Although the story does concern the increased rate metastasis of tumours in the presence of stem cells the point of the research is “if stem cells increase metastasis then blocking stem cell action could reduce metastasis”.*
I’m just waiting for the pro-life/anti-stem cell brigade to jump on that head line and claim that stem cell treatments are all evil and ungodly and the direct cause of all that is bad in society.
*I can’t be overly sure of details of the research as 1) the Beeb haven’t referenced it, 2) they haven’t even given a name of one of the researchers and 3) I can’t find it on the Nature website anywhere suggesting this is all press release
Update: the paper has now been published and can be found here
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