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Article: Physical Scientists at Arizona State University will Apply Laws of Physics in Cancer Fight.(Report)
- Article from:
- Cancer Weekly
- Article date:
- November 10, 2009
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Instead of killing cancer cells, researchers at Arizona State University will use the laws of physics to figure out how to control them. And, rather than treating cancer as a disease and seeking a cure, ASU scientists will view cancer cells as physical objects and study them the way a physicist would, using simple variables like temperature, pressure and force (see also Cancer).
That fresh approach is behind a new research center at Arizona State University - one of 12 Physical Sciences-Oncology Centers receiving some of $22.7 million in funding this fiscal year from the National Institutes of Health's National Cancer Institute. Each center will bring a ...