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In 1993, California's Scripps Research Institute found itself in some hot water.
Countless insomniacs yearning for sleep have looked with envy at their cats, wishing they too could just curl up anywhere and nap. Turns out the cats may hold the secret to natural, drug-free sleep. A report to be published Friday in the journal Science says it may be possible...
For years, doctors have searched for ways to cut those crucial supply lines and, in effect, starve their patients' tumors to death. But the biology of blood-vessel growth is so complicated that most of their efforts have failed. Last week scientists from the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla...
What is particularly exciting about the potential treatments is that unlike more traditional cancer therapies, they do not appear to damage normal tissue. Instead, the proteins interfere with a step that is important only in the creation of new blood vessels. Arteries, veins and capillaries that have been in existence...
Even though much more research has to be done, the Scripps findings look promising. As doctors and their patients know all too well, malignant tumors have a nasty habit of outwitting whatever treatments are aimed at them. A one- two punch that deprives the tumor of its blood supply while...