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The team is now investigating whether lysosomal dysfunction in aging stem cells contributes to the development of leukemic stem cells, potentially connecting normal stem cell aging with cancer formation.

From Science Daily • May 12, 2026

A humanized bone marrow ossicle xenotransplantation model enables improved engraftment of healthy and leukemic human hematopoietic cells.

From Nature • Jan. 23, 2018

It came about, he remarked to the Lasker Foundation, because he was simply “diddling around with leukemic cells in culture.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 12, 2017

In the nineteen-seventies, researchers discovered that leukemic cells lay sleeping in the central nervous system, and developed targeted treatments that could eliminate them.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 15, 2014

Less frequently, enlarged mediastinal tuberculous, leukemic, leutic or Hodgkin's glands compress the airway.

From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Jackson, Chevalier