Sentences with phrase «attack against invaders»

The idea behind a vaccine is simple: by exposing the immune system to a tell - tale piece of pathogen, the immune system is alerted to danger and mounts a specific attack against invaders that have this trait.

Not exact matches

Drawing a line between the French government's quick response to terrorists attack on the country three days ago with Nigeria's fight against Boko Haram, the former Minister stressed that the latter has not demonstrated the requisite will - power to rescue its territory from invaders.

Some bacteria protect themselves against phage attacks with a system called CRISPR, which stores pieces of past invaders» DNA so bacteria can recognize and fend off those phages in the future (SN: 4/15/17, p. 22).

The immune system protects us from scores of invaders, but it can also turn against us when white blood cells called autoimmune T cells attack the body's own tissue.

Antibodies defend the body against bacterial, viral, and other invaders but sometimes the body makes antibodies that attack healthy cells.

The hallmark of vertebrate immune systems is their ability to «remember» an infection and mount specific attacks against microbial invaders the next time they come knocking.

For example, if a holobiont is attacked by a pathogen that the host can not defend against, another symbiont may fulfill the job by manufacturing a toxin that can kill the invader.

An important area of research focus for NIAID is the immune system, the complex network of cells, tissues, and organs that work together to defend the body against attacks by foreign invaders such as bacteria, viruses, parasites, and fungi.

If a patient is injected with stem cells taken from a donated embryo, his or her immune system may see the cells as foreign invaders and launch an attack against them.

Normally, your immune system acts as a protector against foreign invaders (such as germs, bacteria and viruses), and its job is to attack these foreign invaders upon sight to keep us healthy.

The chronically stressed mice had decreased immune function and experienced tumor development significantly earlier than the non-stressed mice.16 Other mouse studies of ovarian cancer showed that chronic stress resulted in increased cancer growth as well as increased angiogenesis, the process with which cancer forms new blood vessels to feed itself nutrients for growth and metastases.17 Chronic stress has also been shown to decrease our body's ability to mount an attack against foreign invaders, including viruses.18 As we know that several viruses can cause cancer (HPV and cervical cancer, and EBV and nasopharyngeal cancer), we can extrapolate that any decrease in immune function could increase cancer risk.

These all creates free radicals, which you can consider free radicals in the body are like invaders to your body, that are attacking your body, and colonize the body so then, the body attacks back through the forms of overload stress on the immune system, inflammation, weight gain, allergies and addictions.These are all symptoms of your body attacking against free radicals.

These could be from «normal» food, however, in a undigested / not - completely broken down form, your body thinks they are foreign invaders and attacks these molecules mounting an immune system response against them.

After an alien attack devastates Moscow, survivors search for a way to fight back against the deadly invaders.

The attack against the Earth doesn't last long (only about first two levels of the story mode) when Wryn launches a counter-attack and pursues the invaders back to their turf.

WHAT: When he's ordered onto the front lines as part of a synchronized attack against alien invaders, Major William Cage (Tom Cruise) is killed in action... only to discover that he's been infected with the aliens» ability to control time.

The tides at sea have turned against the US Navy as alien invaders are mounting a full attack.

The Frontier forces mobilize against the Tundran invaders for a time, but call a ceasefire with Marshal Nova after Countess Ingrid's surprise Bomber attack, forming the Alliance of Nations to deal with the Xylvanian threat.

The attack against the Earth doesn't last long (only about first two levels of the story mode) when Wryn launches a counter-attack and pursues the invaders back to their turf.