Technologies

Identification of stem cells as the cellular basis of prostate cancer provides therapeutic potential

Technology description

Application area

• Diagnosis of prostate cancer and prostate cancer risk


• Potential target for the development of therapeutics for prostate cancer


• Basis of in vitro high throughput assays for drug and biomarker development

Advantages

• Previously unidentified stem cell type in prostate endothelium


• Stem cell type is physiologically relevant to human prostate cancer


• Exhibits oncogenic properties faithful to disease phenotype