Filling tumors with oxygen makes them more susceptible to treatment. In seeking a path to deliver more oxygen to tumors, researchers turned to an unlikely source of inspiration: foam used in cooking, like the whipped cream that baristas use to top hot chocolates. Utilizing the same whipping siphon used in the culinary world, they created a food-based foam that can be injected directly into tumors and showed that it was effective in reducing treatment resistance in mouse tumors.Continue ReadingCategory: Medical, ScienceTags: Cancer, Prostate cancer, University of Iowa, Tumors, Molecular Gastronomy

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