Sentences with phrase «alters your cells so»

Growth hormone, however, alters your cells so that your body will experience long - lasting effects.

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Also, it is well - known that body cells alter their extracellular environment by exchanging chemicals, generating heat, and so on.8

For example, if I come from a long line of brown - eyed people, can I aim to alter the DNA molecules in my reproductive cells so as to pass on to my son «genes for blue - eyedness»?

We're surrounded by so much processed food that our cells are no longer capable of recognizing the food we eat because it has been altered and genetically modified.

Martin Fussenegger of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and his colleagues made this implant by genetically altering human skin cells so that they would become darker in colour when exposed to rising calcium levels.

Tissue - engineered livers grown from stem cells, say, could have their genetic code altered so that they would be immune to liver - destroying viruses such as hepatitis C.

It was unlikely that all 24 genes would be altered simultaneously in any one bacterium, so the cycle was repeated over and over to increase the proportion of cells with mutations in all 24 genes.

Because neural crest cells contribute to so many tissues in the body, altering their function could change an animal's behavior, appearance and biology, the researchers reasoned.

Next, they intend to alter the toxin so that instead of fitting nerve cell ion channels, it fits important biological receptors and enzymes.

Proponents of this idea suggested that chlorine exposure might destroy the cell wall — by altering it physically, chemically and biochemically — and so terminate the cell's vital functions, killing the microorganism.

The scientists then moved on to study mice which had been genetically altered so that their hair cells lacked two of the RFX transcription factors.

The research suggests that reducing production of the protein, called myoferlin, affects cancer cells in two primary ways: by changing the activation of many genes involved in metastasis in favor of normal cell behavior, and by altering mechanical properties of cancer cells — including their shape and ability to invade — so they are more likely to remain nested together rather than breaking away to travel to other tissues.

Here, six patients suspended combination antiretroviral therapy for 12 weeks after infusion with altered CD4 cells, so scientists could monitor viral load and the power of the altered immune cells to survive and thrive in the presence of active HIV.

When two copies of the altered hemoglobin gene are present, they cause the shape of the hemoglobin to change so much that the «sickled» blood cells don't flow freely in the blood vessels, causing excruciating pain.

If so, it may be possible to improve transplant outcomes by altering diets and developing therapies that target the specific cells altered by this condition,» said Iacomini.

Ron Fouchier of Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, genetically altered his H5 strain by changing its receptors so the virus could infect cells higher in the respiratory tract.

So the shark - specific signature of adaptation found in the Bag1 gene may indicate an alternative, or modified role for this important gene — one that could alter its tendency to inhibit programmed cell death in sharks.

When the research team used pharmaceuticals to inhibit one function of the endoplasmic reticulum (the building of so - called lipoprotein particles that will export fats out of the cell), the gene activation process was inhibited for many key genes and nuclear ruffling was also altered.

So this language in effect means alterations of embryonic cells can not be done in the United States if there is any intent to treat a human being, including implantation of an altered embryo into a woman's uterus.

A technique used by scientists to alter the genes (DNA) of an animal or other organism, so that its cells produce different proteins and behave differently

These so - called «living drugs» — injected T cells genetically modified to better recognize and kill tumor cells through a perpetual process of cell renewal and expansion — are revolutionizing cancer treatment, with the first two FDA approvals of such gene - altering therapies occurring in just the last two months.

Scientists had altered their genes so that they lacked a certain type of nerve cell in their spinal cords.

A novel study from researchers at Karolinska Institutet shows that by using so called random sequence labels, working as barcodes for tracing genetically altered cells, during CRISPR / Cas9 gene knock - outs it is possible to generate more comprehensive data from a smaller number of cells.

The authors speculate that treatment of the mice with broad - spectrum antibiotics would kill multiple pathogens in the gut and alter the biome so that the proliferation of the tuft cells would be prevented.

There are some clinical trials underway to test whether blood stem cells or mesenchymal stem cells from the bone marrow might alter or re-set the immune system so that it no longer attacks the beta cells.

Here's how the treatment works: A patient's blood is filtered so immune cells called T - cells can be altered to contain a cancer - fighting gene.

In the case of hydrogenated fats, which are unsaturated fats altered to be solid at room temp to improve shelf life of products, the body mistakes them for the saturated fats it uses for cell membrane permeability (and overall repair), making cells impermeable so nutrients can't get in.

Essentially, the aim is to genetically alter patients» own blood stem cells so they don't produce abnormal hemoglobin.

IUDs prevent pregnancy by altering the way sperm cells move so they can't get to an egg.