Sentences with phrase «control normal cell death»

The mutations may be in genes governing some aspect of the immune system but they might also be in tumor suppressor genes whose job it is to seek out and destroy cancerous cells, genes that control cell division, genes that control normal cell death, and other types as well.

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This cell death bore the hallmarks of apoptosis, a controlled cell suicide that is needed for the normal development of an embryo, and to ensure that our immune system contains the correct array of cells.

More importantly, Zhang and his team for the first time found that treating the pancreatic tumor cells with MIR506 induced autophagy, a process that occurs as a normal and controlled part of an organism's growth or development and that could promote cancer cell death.