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...proposed treatment, a synthetic version of an uncommon fungus known as fumagillin, has already shown evidence of halting cancerous lumps before they can send fatal offshoots to nearby lymph nodes or other vital organs. Laboratory animals subjected to this drug suffered from no harmful side effects associated with most common cancer treatments such as radiation therapy...
...opens up a whole new frontier in cancer therapy," says Ingber, who co-authored a December paper in Nature which identified the fumagillin fungus as an anti-tumor agent...
...contaminant turned out to be a fungus which, upon close inspection, had caused nearby cells to become rounded. Such rounding intrigued Ingber, since rounded cells tend to crowd out or stunt the growth of local capillaries...
Ingber, along with Folkman and their associates, sent the corrupted sample to Japan, where chemists grew the fungus in huge 10,000-liter vats in order to extract the potent compound. The Japanese found the active, capillary-suppressing agent to be the rare fungus fumagillin...
...have to be rich enough not to let something like the fear of fungus keep you awake at night. "Your court can disappear on you if you're not careful," says Tom Lufkin, a member of the game's hall of fame who has built his own court at his nursery in Northern California. Lufkin, who played for years on Samuel Goldwyn's two courts in Beverly Hills, recalls those glory years of the game when fierce rivalries between literary lions like Alexander Woollcott and George S. Kaufman led to marathon grudge matches on the producer's courts. Woollcott once...