Discovery of Natural Compounds That Could Slow Blood Vessel Growth; Johns Hopkins Researchers Discover Candidates for Fighting Disease.

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Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions

BALTIMORE, Oct. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Using computer models and live cell experiments, biomedical engineers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have discovered more than 100 human protein fragments that can slow or stop the growth of cells that make up new blood vessels.

Reporting online last week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers say the findings could lead to developing treatments to fight diseases that depend on the growth of new blood vessels, including cancer, macular degeneration and rheumatoid...

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