Word: outwitted
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...attacking it directly. His reasoning was sound. Tumors are made up of rapidly dividing mutant cells that adapt quickly to almost any treatment thrown at them. Blood vessels, by contrast, are made up of normal cells that grow much more slowly and are nowhere near as difficult to outwit. Hoping to starve tumors through their supply line of nutrients, Folkman set out to find a drug that could block the construction of new blood vessels...
...meta ones, but standard horror applied in ever more surprising ways (but not too surprising; things peter out quickly). For example, a man accompanied by two others in a wide open campus field in front of several buildings is stalked and killed by man. Trying to outwit his assailant as he speaks with him on a cell phone, the man is pied-pipered to his own doom. It could be anybody, really (well, so long as he had suffered through a mass-murder scandal in the past), though here it happens to be Randy Meeks (Jamie Kennedy...
Since each man is simply trying to outwit the other by appearing to be all things to all people, consequently, in this election, more than the previous ones, ideology has been supplanted by opportunism. Accordingly, the two candidates' ideologies, it seems, have become as malleable as clay in a the hands of a child who can shape it as he wishes. What is worse, however, is the fact that we are being presented with a superficial facade intended for the public's consumption--while underneath, the candidates' views have not essentially changed. They have simply become ambiguous...
Furthermore, it is not just the immune system that scientists must outwit. They also have to get the cells that are targeted for treatment to open their molecular locks and allow the foreign genes inside. As Dr. James Wilson, director of the Institute for Human Gene Therapy at the University of Pennsylvania, points out, "The basic principles necessary to make gene therapy successful are only beginning to be defined...
Advances on some fronts are marred by setbacks on others. Lower cholesterol levels and better emergency care have cut death rates from heart disease and stroke. But scourges thought conquered, such as tuberculosis and whooping cough, are showing new virulence as microbes outwit antibiotics. And we are almost powerless against new killers like the AIDS virus...