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A brief animation that describes tumor formation and the critical requirement of angiogenesis, or blood vessel formation, to the formation of tumors.
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A cancer tumor forms in a bed of healthy cells. The animation goes on to show how the tumor recruits blood vessels and how metastasis occurs.
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This is an animation depicting angiogenesis. Angiogenesis is when cancer cells send out signals to nearby blood vessels. These signals cause the blood vessel to grow towards the cancer cells, feeding the cells with a fresh blood supply.
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A 3D animation describing angiogenesis and its role in the development of cancer.
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This brief animation shows the important role of the signal VEGF in tumor angiogenesis, or blood vessel formation.
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This animation shows how a growing tumor can recruit nearby blood vessels in order to gain a suply (sic) of blood.
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A beautiful and moving tribute to Dr Judah Folkman, an internationally revered and iconic cancer researcher, whose insights led to an entire new field of medicine. His legacy continues to inspire leading doctors and researchers throughout the scientific communities.
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Dr. Judah Folkman, who died in early 2008, was a renowned cancer expert and generally acknowledged founder of the field of angiogenesis. He received critical early funding from the American Cancer Society. This video was created for the Society's Cancer Action Network, which seeks to increase funding for cancer research.
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Movie S7a-p of "Contact-inhibited chemotaxis in de novo and sprouting blood-vessel growth", Roeland M. H. Merks, Erica D. Perryn, Abbas Shirinifard, and James A. Glazier. See preprint at: http://arxiv.org/abs /q-bio/0505033
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This weeks top stories include Prostate cancer treatment may increase heart disease, Men with prostate cancer want treatment rather than having to wait, but a litany of side effects, Drug Avastin can slow brain tumors and Anemia drug may not be for every cancer patient
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dynamic network behaviour using the 'aero' structure pattern formation. The network automatically reconfigures itself based on the flux between the nodes.