Sentences with phrase «unlike healthy cells»

The reason pet parents want to feed their pets a diet high in fat is due to the way tumor cells, unlike healthy cells use fat.

Unlike healthy cells, cancer cells thrive when deprived of oxygen.

Unlike healthy cells, cancer cells are constantly growing, and so need to keep making proteins and lipids — the building blocks of all cells.

Not exact matches

Unlike chemotherapy, which involves administering powerful drugs that kill both cancerous and healthy cells (most healthy cells can repair themselves), immunotherapies harness the power of the immune system to help it identify and knock out just the cancerous cells.

Unlike traditional chemotherapy that kills rapidly dividing cells, both malignant and healthy, GO was designed to kill more selectively.

Unlike chemotherapy and radiation — which indiscriminately damage cells and tissues, healthy or otherwise — the CD45 - targeting antibodies leave the thymus and the bone marrow, environments critical to the formation of T cells and innate immune cells, unharmed.

Unlike many chemotherapeutic drugs that affect healthy cells as well as malignant ones and can cause undesired side effects, the control of lncRNAs may offer a new way to specifically prevent or slow the progression of malignant cells.

The resulting compound works by a unique mechanism of action unlike any drug currently used in the treatment of cancer, and it destroys replicating and nonreplicating malignant cells while minimizing damage to surrounding, healthy cells.

Unlike with the typical methods for drug delivery used in chemotherapy, the system did not attack healthy lung cells.

Unlike with the iKnife or laser devices, surgeons can safely test marginal tissue without potentially harming healthy cells.

«But unlike chemotherapy, they won't kill the healthy cells, and they often don't have as many side effects either.»

Perhaps the most significant observation documented in this study was the ability of lauric acid to target cancer cells but not affect healthy cells, unlike most chemotherapy drugs.

The basic principle is this: unlike normal, healthy cells, cancer cells don't have an «off switch» when it comes to consuming food (i.e., sugar).

Unlike their healthy counterparts, cancer cells lack the mechanism that tells them to stop multiplying, as well as the process known as programmed cell death (aka «apoptosis»), which gets rid of unneeded cells.

Some studies suggested that certain chemicals present in peaches may be able to inhibit the growth of cancer cells without affecting normal body cells — unlike chemotherapy, which is highly effective but unable to discriminate between healthy cells and cancer.