Sentences with phrase «cells unharmed»

Research reveals that both in cell lines as well as mouse models, grape seed extract kills neck and head squamous cell carcinoma cells, though keeping healthy cells unharmed.

Intravenous C appears to trigger the formation of hydrogen peroxide, which kills some cancer cells while leaving healthy cells unharmed, says lead study author Mark Levine, MD, chief of the molecular and clinical nutrition section and senior staff physician at the National Institutes of Health.

Tumor immunologists are therefore able to design immunotherapies that target only cancer cells while leaving normal cells unharmed.

«A team at the Broad Institute, a Harvard - M.I.T. collaborative for genomics research, has devised a way of screening for drugs that attack cancer stem cells but leave ordinary cells unharmed.

From the NYT: «A team at the Broad Institute, a Harvard - M.I.T. collaborative for genomics research, has devised a way of screening for drugs that attack cancer stem cells but leave ordinary cells unharmed.

We're working to understand how aneuploidy impacts cancer progression, in hopes of developing therapies that can specifically eliminate aneuploid cancers while leaving normal cells unharmed.

An ideal chemotherapeutic agent is expected to specifically kill tumor cells, cause the least amount of undesirable side effect, and leave normal cells unharmed.

Olaparib, taken in pill form, was designed to target cancers containing faulty BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, while leaving healthy cells unharmed.

Directly injected viral vector, Toca 511, is designed to spread through brain cancer cells and kill them while leaving healthy cells unharmed

Immune cells are able to target threats selectively within the body — be they virally infected cells, bacteria, parasites, or cancerous cells — while, in most normal cases, leaving healthy cells unharmed.

In fact, it is thought that common chemotherapies, targeting the fast - dividing cells, leave the relatively slow - dividing tumor stem cells unharmed and thus pave the way for an eventual relapse.

An antibiotic is a poison that works to destroy bacterial cells while leaving human cells unharmed.

Using a genetic strategy in mice, the researchers were able to ablate these Gli1 cells, while leaving other cells unharmed.

The team demonstrate that targeting of C1 T - cells can kill C1 cancers while leaving all normal C2 T - cells unharmed so that they can take care of infections.

Lead researcher, Cancer Research UK scientist Professor Henning Walczak from the UCL Cancer Institute, said: «Igniting the fuse that causes lung cancer cells to self - destruct could pave the way to a completely new treatment approach — and leave healthy cells unharmed.

More researchers are using nanoparticles to deliver lethal toxins specifically to cancer cells, leaving regular cells unharmed.

Not exact matches

Based on animal models, including a primate model, it is hypothesized that the cells remain unharmed in the digestive tract of the infant then enter the bloodstream, migrate to different organs, and there provide active immunity.54

Another advantage is the very selective effect of the substance, which ensures that the cancer cells are killed off efficiently but healthy body cells remain unharmed.

Unlike chemotherapy and radiation — which indiscriminately damage cells and tissues, healthy or otherwise — the CD45 - targeting antibodies leave the thymus and the bone marrow, environments critical to the formation of T cells and innate immune cells, unharmed.

For example, the camera could be used to visualize energy metabolism as it occurs within a cell's mitochondria or the way light passes through tissue, an important consideration for therapies that use lasers to destroy diseased tissue with the goal of leaving healthy tissue unharmed.

More important, the technique leaves the underlying tissue unharmed, prefiguring a day when doctors might build miniature sensors directly onto the skin of their patients, or biologists might use microscopic tweezers to capture and study individual cells.

Three new studies suggest ways to home in on cancer cells during treatment, leaving surrounding healthy tissue unharmed.

Blocking the enzyme causes the cancerous cells to die, so the company is working with a telomerase inhibitor, imetelstat, that it hopes will kill tumor cells while leaving healthy ones unharmed.

Curcumin sensitizes cancer cells to chemotherapy and radiation, which makes these toxic therapies more targeted (helping to attack the cancer, while leaving healthy, unaffected cells and tissues unharmed).

Like microscopic bodyguards, the Micelle Liposomal delivery system grabs hold of the nutrients (in this case Turmeric), protecting them as they travel through your digestive system, into your bloodstream and into your cells where they are needed... unharmed.