The Scientist: UB pioneered engrafted cancer under skin of mouse

By John DellaContrada

Release Date: March 31, 2010 This content is archived.

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An article in The Scientist about a new method of using mouse models to test the effectiveness of drugs against cancer reports that UB's Richard Bankert was the first to engraft cancer under the skin of a mouse in the late 1980s, allowing scientists to study the progress of cancer in the mouse.

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