Sentences with phrase «carrying human tumors»
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Pancreatic tumors taken from human patients also carried the enzyme - producing bacteria.
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But some people thought that bacteria carrying tumor genes would be dangerous for humans.
«The mice carry the genetic mutations found in human tumors, and develop tumors that closely resemble what children and adolescents do.»
These kind of mice are an extraordinary resource for modeling human disease; for instance, research has found that mice that are genetically mutated to carry the BRCA1 gene (a human breast cancer gene) behave more similarly to human cancer patients than those mice who have had a tumor physically transplanted in.
«We not only uncovered the biological pathway stimulating cancer growth, but we found a compound that blocked it, increasing the survival of mice carrying human metaplastic breast tumors,» Chang says.