Word: spreading
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Without blood vessels as feeding tubes, the tumors are malnourished and cannot spread throughout the body. Vascular endothelial cells make up a layer of cells that line blood vessels...
Folkman said that existing tumors actually provide inhibitors for growth of blood vessels elsewhere in the body--this spread is known as metastases...
...halftime, we figured out that we needed to spread the field more and concentrate more when we got opportunities," Leary said...
Since then two developments have fostered the spread of cultism. One is the end of communism. Whatever the disasters of Marxism, at least it provided an outlet for utopian longings. Now that universalist impulses have one less way to expend themselves, religious enthusiasms of whatever character take on a fresh appeal. And even Russia, with a rich tradition of fevered spirituality and the new upheavals of capitalism, is dealing with modern cults...
DIED. RICHARD MARSH, 58, veterinary virologist who in the mid-1980s sounded an early warning that bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad-cow disease, could be spread through feed containing cattle by-products; of cancer; in Middleton, Wisconsin...