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Fighting cancer by attacking its blood supply

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Researchers may be able to develop a new cancer treatment if they are able to discover how to keep mutated cells from causing neovascularization, or the development of new capillaries. Neovascularization, or angiogenesis, seems to be a major factor in the development of large, malignant tumors.

Author: Folkman, Judah
Publisher: Scientific American, Inc.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1996
Prevention, Neovascularization

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X-ray sound

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Researchers at the Los Alamos Laboratory have developed a sensor capable of determining the chemical content of varied-shaped containers. The machine uses swept frequency acoustic interferometry to evaluate the toxic and chemical contents of concealed materials.

Author: Gibbs, Wayt W.
Publisher: Scientific American, Inc.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1997
Innovations, Ultrasound imaging, Sensors

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Dissident or Don Quixote?: Challenging the HIV theory got virologist Peter H Duesberg all but excommunicated from the sceintific orthodoxy

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Peter H Duesberg is an American virologist who believes that the scientific community has spent years producing an incorrect theory of how cancer occurs.

Author: Gibbs, Wayt W.
Publisher: Scientific American, Inc.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2001
Practice, Viral research, Virus research

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Subjects list: Research, Cancer research, Cancer
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