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...Assistant Professor of Pathology Donald Ingber and Professor of Anatomy and Cellular Biology M. Judah Folkman, the theoretical part of the research resolves a longstanding clinical question in the study of tumors: rather than being "born" with the capacity to cripple their host, bodily tumors acquire that ability sometime in the early stage of their development...
...Medical School research has already gone beyond academic circles and penetrated the ranks of corporate cancer laboratories, Ingber says, as many companies are beginning to focus their anti-cancer divisions on the tumor-repressing approach...
...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...
Finding such a drug wasn't easy. In fact, by Ingber's account, the discovery came as a stroke of luck...
...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...