Word: ruoslahti
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Technology scientist Richard Hynes. At the La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation in California, genetic scientists have succeeded in inserting a CAM gene inside a tumor cell. Once the cell starts manufacturing patches of biological Velcro, it is essentially "glued in place. It becomes incapable of metastasizing," says Erkki Ruoslahti, president of the foundation. A second approach to controlling cancer is known as "walking on ice." Here the goal is to deny tumor cells traction so they can't grip the walls of blood vessels to implant elsewhere in the body. This may be accomplished by using drugs to block certain...
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