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...other scientists in Folkman's lab, Oliver Kisker and Steven Pirie-Shepherd, later confirmed O'Reilly's finding when they saw the same protein being produced by human pancreatic cancer cells...
...Folkman's lab has previously reported successful experiments using the anti-angiogenic proteins endostatin and angiostatin on tumors in mice. In those experiments, the substances were shown to cause tumors in mice to regress to microscopic size...
Researchers at Bristol Myers Squibb and other biotechnology companies, however, say they are unable to reproduce the results, stirring some controversy over the validity of Folkman's methodology...
...Folkman has his approaches to this problem; other research groups and companies have other approaches," he said. "But the point is that the concept of inhibition of angiogenesis is a fundamentally very important one, both because it seems to me very likely that it will work, at least in some...
Whitesides explained that Folkman's research uses a methodology of attacking "normal" tissues that support a cancer, such as vascular tissue, rather than targeting the cancer itself...