Yale researcher succeeds in creating blood vessels using artificial means.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-8 November 2002-YALE UNIVERSITY: Yale researcher succeeds in creating blood vessels using artificial means (C)1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:11082002 New Haven, Conn -- A Yale researcher and collaborators have succeeded in creating an artificial transcription factor, which is the light switch that turns genes on and off, and induced the growth of new blood vessels in a live laboratory mouse, it was reported in the journal Nature Medicine.

"This is the first time that we have been able to design and use an artificial transcription factor to regulate a gene in any animal," said the senior author of the study, Frank Giordano, M.D., assistant professor of medicine, and director of the Yale Vector Core of the Yale Cancer Center and...