Sentences with phrase «cells hijacked»

A Washington State University researcher has found a way that prostate cancer cells hijack the body's bone maintenance, facilitating the spread of bone cancers present in some 90 percent of prostate - cancer fatalities.

Duke scientist are learning more about the process in which melanoma cells hijack dendritic cells, allowing cancer to avoid detection by the immune system.

Now a team led by researchers at the Duke Cancer Institute have identified a cellular process that cancer cells hijack to hoard cholesterol and fuel their growth.

Major studies how cancer cells hijack specific signaling pathways to spread throughout the body, using drugs and genetic manipulation to probe the inner workings of these out - of - control cells.

The cell hijacks a chemical truck in preparation for Judgment Day, as Farik spends a last night with and bids farewell to his wife, and the FBI prepares to stop the attack.

Understanding how cancer cells hijack and block drugs from reaching their targets will help researchers develop more effective treatments for this difficult - to - treat cancer in dogs.

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Examples are 9/11 hijackings, The holding back of stem cell research that could save countless human lives, Aids being spread due to religious opposition to the use of condoms, Christians legally fighting this year to teach over 1 million young girls in America that they must always be obedient to men, the eroding of child protection laws in America by Christians, for so called faith based healing alternatives that place children's health and safety at risk, burning of witches, the crusades, The Nazi belief that the Aryans were god's chosen to rule the world, etc... But who cares about evidence in the real world when we have our imaginations and delusions about gods with no evidence of them existing.

This hijacks the cell, forcing its machinery to produce phage clones.

«From bite site to brain: How rabies virus hijacks and speeds up transport in nerve cells.»

Once they were free - living bacteria, then they hijacked complex cells, now it turns out they have a hand in everything from memory and ageing to obesity

«We think some of these genes could be «hijacked» by cancer cells and may contribute to the shared invasive characteristics of the placenta and cancer,» Sutherland says.

Kind of hijacking Rudolph's nose cells and instructing them to make the red protein.

We found that the inflammation unfortunately gets hijacked by tumor cells that are able to grow faster and penetrate deeper because the blood vessels in the brain are more permeable than in any other part of the body.

In living organisms, real viruses hijack cells in much the same way.

Cancer cells are opportunistic in the sense that they hijack cellular events necessary for development and survival.

«Drugs like morphine hijack the body's natural painkilling mechanisms, such as those used by endorphins, but because they act within the central nervous system, they can affect other brain cells that use similar pathways, leading to side effects such as addiction or sleepiness,» says Professor Gamper.

The virus then enters and hijacks muscle and nerve cells where it replicates and travels up the nerves to infect the brain and other tissues.

Zika also attacks supporting brain cells — astrocytes — essential to brain growth, and, importantly, the hijacked astrocytes, remain in the brain throughout life.

These genes code for proteins involved in transporting small containers called vesicles throughout the healthy cell, but these proteins are often hijacked by viruses in order to move the virus through the cell.

This is important as one of the reasons tumour cells are so pernicious is that they are able to hide from the body's immune system, by hijacking macrophages.

«New way to repair nerves: Using exosomes to hijack cell - to - cell communication.»

Because T. vaginalis is a tiny single - celled protozoan that must hijack human cells to survive, it was expected to have a rather paltry genome.

The cancer cells, she explains, seem to hijack metabolic processes so they — not the healthy cells — get the energy they need to thrive.

One miRNA can target multiple genes, but their expression is often hijacked by cancer cells and disrupts multiple cancer - causing or tumor - suppressing pathways,» says Shuk - Mei Ho, PhD, director of the CCC and Jacob G. Schmidlapp Chair of Environmental Health and professor at the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine.

But cancer biologists and immunologists have begun to realize that the progression from diseased tissue to full - blown invasive cancer often requires cells that normally participate in healing cuts and scrapes to be diverted to the environs of the premalignant tissue, where they are hijacked to become co-conspirators that aid and abet carcinogenesis.

They do their dirty work by infiltrating bacteria, including disease - causing germs, and destroying them from within: After latching onto bacteria, the phages bore inside and hijack the bacteria's genetic machinery, turning them into phage factories that eventually make so many copies that the cells burst, killing off the host.

In order to survive, viruses must hijack a person's host cells to churn out more viral particles.

After infecting the respiratory tract, the virus hijacks the immune system's white blood cells, using them to spread in the body — including to the skin to cause chickenpox.

«Researchers discover a new link to fight billion - dollar threat to soybean production: Scientists show that parasitic nematodes hijack vascular stem cell pathways to attack their hosts.»

The virus that causes chickenpox — varicella zoster virus (VZV)-- possesses a protein that could enhance its ability to hijack white blood cells and spread throughout the body, according to new research published in PLOS Pathogens.

In particular, they have examined the ways in which viruses hijack cell proteins to help regulate their exit and spread from the host cell through the budding process.

Overall, these results suggest that glycoprotein C may interact with chemokines to attract more white blood cells to the site of VZV infection, where the virus can hijack the white blood cells to spread to other parts of the body.

She notes that stem cells normally divide and reproduce in a very regulated way, «but these signals get hijacked during cancer formation and may promote cancer growth.»

Viruses technically are not alive, but there is some stage that's sort of in between inert and going through a living stage by hijacking the machinery of cells.

Because HIV uses CD4 to infect cells, the researchers used a CAR molecule that hijacks the essential interaction between HIV and the cell surface molecule CD4 to make stem cell - derived T - cells target infected cells.

When EBOV makes copies of itself inside cells, it does so by taking over and hijacking parts of that host cell's basic machinery to make its own proteins.

This endosomal pathway normally breaks things down to absorb and recycle their components, but Ebola virus hijacks the pathway's functions to infiltrate cells.

Viruses, which can not reproduce on their own, hijack host cell proteins and machinery in order to replicate.

That's according to researchers from The University of Manchester who have discovered that the virus protein uses its flexible arms to pass on viral building blocks to the proteins of cells that it hijacks.

HIV - 1 integrates its own genome into the genome of human immune system cells known as CD4 + T cells, hijacking their cellular machinery to make more copies of itself.

HCV invades cells in the body by binding to specific receptors on the cell, enabling the virus to enter it.2 Once inside, HCV hijacks functions of the cell known as transcription, translation and replication, which enables HCV to make copies of its viral genome and proteins, allowing the virus to spread to other sites of the body.2 When HCV enters the host cell, it releases viral (+) RNA that is transcribed by viral RNA replicase into viral -LRB--) RNA, which can be used as a template for viral genome replication to produce more (+) RNA or for viral protein synthesis.

The snippet of plasmid DNA altered the cell's behavior, hijacking it and causing uncontrolled growth.

«This led us to better understand how and why cancer cells efficiently hijack the cell's energetics machinery to be able to keep up rapid replication,» Hsieh said.

Whenever HIV multiplies by hijacking an immune cell, there is a chance of mutation, and there is no guarantee that an HIV drug will be able to handle that mutation.

The replicase can not cope with this task on its own, so it hijacks three «helpers» from the host's own proteins namely the ribosomal protein S1, EF - Tu and EF - Ts, which all usually play important roles for the host cell's protein machine.

The virus can not replicate without a host cell, which it hijacks for its survival.

For instance, the way Zika infects human cells and hijacks their machinery to copy itself many times has proved elusive.

«Cancer hijacks natural cell process to survive.»

The researchers used lysin, a protein antibody typically produced by a virus after it has infected and hijacked a host cell's machinery to replicate.

«Dengue, Zika virus family uses an unexpected approach to hijack human cell machinery.»