Sentences with phrase «destroy tumour cells»
«This looks like very clever technology which can specifically target and destroy tumour cells in this animal work.
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To avoid the risk of injected cells destroying healthy tissue, Th17 cells that are reactive to tumours but not to normal tissues would have to be identified, Dong cautions.
In a revolutionary first, Cancer Research UK - funded scientists will test whether the Zika virus can destroy brain tumour cells, potentially leading to new treatments for one of the hardest to treat cancers.
The team found that exposing samples of human glioblastoma tumours grown in a dish to the Zika virus destroyed the cancer stem cells.
The process was so effective that 20 days later, the cell culture showed no evidence of any revival, suggesting that the tumour cells had been destroyed.
Tumours spread with the help of enzymes called matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), which destroy the connective tissue between cells and organs, allowing tumour cells to break out of the original site and enter new ones.
So if biologists can discover how to disable cancer cells» DNA repair proteins, it may be possible to destroy tumours using lower doses of radiation or drugs.
If these could be targeted to tumours — by attaching them to antibodies that recognise cancer cells, for instance — it would then be possible to destroy the malignant cells» DNA using lower doses of radiation or drugs.
The protein senses a potent immune molecule called tumour necrosis factor (TNF) that destroys cancerous cells but that is also implicated in autoimmune disease.
Even soil - living or flesh - eating bacteria, engineered viruses, weed extracts, microwaves, chemicals from Antarctic sea squirts and the immune cells of siblings have been recruited to destroy tumours.
Even if you get most of the brain tumour out it comes back again, so we were wondering if you could leave something in the brain cavity that would help target chemotherapy precisely to the tumour to destroy the remaining tumour cells responsible for the disease coming back.