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Cancer Warrior: Part 7 -- Finding new inhibitors

This segment shows how Dr. Michael O'reilly identified the angiogenesis inhibitors from tumor cells and the successful tumor treatment using mice as a model organism. This is Part 7 of a 8 part series (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/cancer/program.html) that introduces a possible non-toxic cancer treatment and highlights the long journey of how angiogenesis (new blood vessel growth) was discovered, how most scientists thought angiogenesis as ridiculous, how angiogenesis was proven existed and crucial to tumor growth, and the effort of searching angiogenesis inhibitors. This series not only shows scientists' problem-solving in research laboratory, but also shows how scientists face the harsh critics/examines from their peers. Moreover, this series shows even though the logic of an experimental design could be very simple, it often takes many years of hard work to identify the target of interest. Biotechnologies such as protein purification and cell cultures are shown in this series.
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Date Of Record Creation 2007-08-09 15:46:01
Date Of Record Release 2007-08-09 15:00:29
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