Sentences with phrase «cells go out of control»

When these cells go out of control, they produce more insulin than your ferret's body needs or wants.

Not exact matches

But sometimes things went wrong, cells multiplied out of control, and the result was cancer.

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Fisher's goal was to understand how to strike down the skin cells called melanocytes when they inexplicably go out of control and cause melanoma.

In one of nature's mixed blessings, the mechanisms that work to heal cuts and wounds, rebuilding damaged cells, can also go out of control and cause cancer.

When this happens, cell processes go out of control.

Zelboraf targets patients who test positive for a variant of the BRAF gene, another kinase that can go haywire and cause cells to grow out of control.

But sometimes the genes that control cell growth go out of whack, enabling cells to multiply out of control.

Results of a study published online this week at Nature show that Carabin «acts like an internal brake to dial down the speed and intensity of an immune response so that it doesn't go too fast or too far, or careen out of control and attack healthy cells,» says Jun O. Liu, Ph.D., professor of pharmacology, neuroscience and oncology at Hopkins.

«The longer you go without a period, cells can grow out of control and can become cancerous,» says Dr. Jaque.