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...heart is a beautiful organ, and it's not one that I thought I'd ever be able to build in a dish.' DORIS A. TAYLOR, head of a University of Minnesota research team, on its ability to create a beating rat heart in the lab...
Befitting his ever-active mind and lifestyle, Folkman died of an apparent heart attack in the airport en route to a scientific conference. "At 74, he was as vibrant as I remember him 20 years ago when I was in his lab," says Dr. William Li, director and co-founder of the Angiogenesis Foundation and a student of Folkman's in the 1980s. "He was bustling around, meeting colleagues, teaching students, and giving lectures...
...creativity were practically boundless. "He would work 21 hours a day," says Brem. "He was chairman of pediatric surgery at Children's Hospital, so he would do surgery and see patients during day, then at night he would have dinner from six to eight, then work in the lab from eight to two a.m." That dedication led Folkman to change the way cancer is treated today. His hunch, dating to his early days in the lab in the 1960s, that cancer tumors rely on the formation of new blood vessels for nourishment and growth, has since...
...think we’re having a sleepover as a lab,” she said...
...praised the friendly nature of the lab where she said undergrads are encouraged to pursue independent projects...