Chemotherapy drugs often never reach the tumors they're intended to treat, and radiation therapy is not always effective, because the blood vessels feeding the tumors are abnormal—"leaky and twisty" ...
Announcing a new article publication in BIO Integration. The tumor vasculature, characterized by pathological angiogenesis ...
Contrary to a long-standing assumption that blood vessel cells in healthy tissues and those associated with tumors are similar, a new study unequivocally demonstrates that tumor blood vessel cells are ...
Abnormal tumor blood vessels promote cancer progression and treatment resistance. Researchers have developed two approaches to repair tumor blood vessels and they have devised a method to measure the ...
Researchers examine the local communication between endothelial cells and tumors cells and its effects on endothelial cell orientation. The approach uses co-cultured human umbilical vein endothelial ...
Researchers have built DNA-based nanodevices that can identify cancer cells, latch onto them, and deliver drugs or ...
Transcript:Edward S. Kim, MD: For decades, we used 2-drug chemotherapy—that’s how we treated the majority of our lung cancer patients. Over time, we’ve tried many times to see if we can add more ...
By Ethan L. Snow, PhD, MA Cells are the basic building blocks of all living organisms. In a healthy body, cells follow an ...
Blood vessels in tumor tissues are leakier than those in normal tissues. Researchers from the University of Michigan-Dearborn, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the University at Albany—SUNY ...