Sentences with phrase «dealing with the cancer cells»

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Biotech giant Gilead Sciences is beefing up its cancer drug portfolio with a $ 11.9 billion deal to buy Kite Pharma, a company focused on a groundbreaking new class of treatments that turns the body's own immune cells into targeted blood cancer killers.

In December, SQZ partnered with global pharma firm and cancer treatment leader F. Hoffmann - La Roche in a deal that could be worth $ 500 million or more — a large undisclosed upfront payment, and additional sums when SQZ meets certain milestones — to speed up the development of its technology specifically to inject a person's immune cells with a protein to activate a «killer T» cell response to fight off cancer.

When the T cells of your immune system are forced to deal over time with cancer or a chronic infection such as HIV or hepatitis C, they can develop «T cell exhaustion,» becoming less effective and losing their ability to attack and destroy the invaders of the body.

So we might just be able to deal with cell loss if we had a sufficiently sophisticated program of stem cell replenishment — using cells engineered to lack the one linchpin function for cancer, namely telomere elongation.

Craig Thompson, president of the Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, yesterday was hit with a second lawsuit alleging that he made an improper business deal to exploit his research on the metabolism of cancer Cancer Center in New York City, yesterday was hit with a second lawsuit alleging that he made an improper business deal to exploit his research on the metabolism of cancer cancer cells.

If dealing with the public relations nightmare over its on - off - on funding of Planned Parenthood wasn't enough, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure cancer charity last week also got entangled, somewhat bizarrely, in the debate over human embryonic stem (ES) cell research.

Immunotherapy treatments help to boost the immune system, enabling it to deal effectively with cancer cells.

These super-stimulants may be especially ray ban outlet effective in the realm of cancer, where the immune system is not responding to a stealthy threat. But in dealing with autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis or inflammatory bowel disease, it is more necessary to rein in over-enthusiastic immune cells.

According to Tuveson, «it turns out the scaredy cat in this whole situation is the cancer cell, which can not deal with reactive oxygen and really waves the white flag when you raise reactive oxygen.»

One way to deal with this is to inhibit the cancer cells» immune responses, which in effect, disarms the malignant cells.

The High RF Frequency Protocol is actually a «new school» protocol as it deals not only with the normal things (cancer cells, microbes in the bloodstream, etc.) it also deals with cellular energy and the «root cause» of the cancer, which is always microbes in the organs.

An unconventional melodrama about a couple dealing with their young daughter's leukemia, The Broken Circle Breakdown is an amalgam of disparate genres and impulses — part bluegrass musical, part cancer drama, and part soapbox for stem - cell research.

Answer: Cancer is hard to guess about - especially because you don't know what cell type you are dealing with yet.