Open AccessStanding on the shoulders of microbes: How cancer biologists are expanding their view of hard‐to‐kill persister cells
Author(s) -
Oren Yaara
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
molecular systems biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 8.523
H-Index - 148
ISSN - 1744-4292
DOI - 10.15252/msb.202211168
Subject(s) - biology , shoulders , multidrug tolerance , computational biology , budding yeast , genetics , yeast , saccharomyces cerevisiae , bacteria , biofilm , medicine , surgery
Similar to persister bacterial cells that survive antibiotic treatments, some cancer cells can evade drug treatments. This Commentary discusses the different classes of persister cells and their implications for developing more efficient cancer treatments.