Word: folkman
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...Folkman's research works with compounds designed to shrink tumors by restricting their blood supply...
...according to results Folkman published in a medical journal in November 1997, these methods eradicated tumors in laboratory mice--surpassing his original goal of simply shrinking the tumors...
This resulted in a flood of initial publicity, capped by a New York Times cover story in which Nobel laureate and co-discoverer of DNA James D. Watson was quoted as saying that Folkman would have the cure for cancer in two years...
...Folkman himself was also quick to caution that the discovery of a cure was not imminent...
...quoted remark made to the New York Times, Folkman quipped, "If you have cancer and you are a mouse, we can take very good care...