Childhood Brain Cancer Cells Grown from Patient Cells in the Laboratory (IMAGE)

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Childhood Brain Cancer Cells Grown from Patient Cells in the Laboratory

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Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) is a rare, deadly childhood brain cancer. Here, a confocal micrograph shows DIPG cells, grown from patient cells, in culture. The cells are expressing several proteins, including: DAPI (blue, in the cell nuclei); vimentin (red, a protein marker of neural stem/precursor cells and glioma cells); and Nestin (green, also a protein marker of neural stem/precursor cells and glioma cells).

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Shawn Gillespie, Monje Laboratory, Stanford Medicine

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