Enzyme Blocks The Formation Of New Blood Vessels in Cancer by Pooja Shete on December 24, 2020 at 10:04 PM
Almost all the living things require oxygen to grow including cancerous tumors. A feature of the tumors is that it can develop new blood vessels (angiogenesis) if they do not get enough oxygen in order to survive.
The research conducted by Xiang-Lei Yang, PhD, a professor In the Department of Molecular Medicine at Scripps Research is published in the journal
PLOS Biology.
The study points to the exact molecular machinery that leads to angiogenesis providing scientific insights that can help develop drugs to kill tumors and stop their spread in the body.