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Researchers at Boston Children's Hospital have discovered a naturally occurring protein fragment which has been shown to inhibit tumor growth in mice, the third isolated at the hospital's labs...
...Medical School's Andrus Professor of Pediatric Surgery M. Judah Folkman announced last Friday that tests at his lab at the Children's Hospital had confirmed the effectiveness in mice of the protein fragment, called antiangiogenic antithrombin (aaAT), in suppressing the formation of blood vessels that feed tumor growth...
...implanting human tumors into mice and comparing tumor growth, scientists can try to identify which types of human tumors could possibly be used in future to inhibit cancers, according to the Science article...
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...
...that the gene for intelligence has been cloned and that a human smart pill for routine production of kiddie geniuses lies just around the millennial corner. None of this punditry, however, will bear any relationship to current realities or reasonable prospects for the short-term future. Even so, the mice studied by Tsien et al. could help us correct two common errors in our thinking about genetics and intelligence...