Partially blocking blood vessels' energy source may stop cancer growth, blindness, other conditions

Thursday, December 12, 2013 - 19:30 in Health & Medicine

Inhibiting the formation of new blood vessels is a common strategy for treating a range of conditions such as cancer, inflammatory diseases, and age-related macular degeneration. Unfortunately, drug inefficiency, resistance, and relapse have limited the success of this approach. Now new research reveals that targeting the metabolism of blood vessels may be a way around these shortcomings.

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