Sentences with phrase «destroying healthy cells»

They are responsible for destroying healthy cells... and have been linked to all sorts of horrible diseases like cancer, dementia, diabetes and others.

Your immune system turns on itself, destroying healthy cells, tissues and everything else in its destructive path.

ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA — Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) cells invade the bone marrow and spleen by destroying healthy cells with a toxic protein, according to a new study.

In acute myeloid leukemia, undifferentiated bone marrow cells grow uncontrollably in the blood and bone marrow, crowding out and destroying healthy cells.

These free radicals have the ability to destroy healthy cells which plays a role in many diseases

In previous studies, pulsating magnetic fields have been used to deliver drugs, but the heat caused by the application can destroy healthy cells of patients.

Autoimmune disorders result from reactions by the body's immune system which in turn attack and destroy healthy cells.

University at Buffalo researchers and colleagues studying a rare, blistering disease have discovered new details of how autoantibodies destroy healthy cells in skin.

Oisín Biotechnology — a startup with initial funding from SENS Research Foundation, the Methuselah Foundation, and others — is close behind them, having developed a form of gene therapy that — in animals at least — also destroys these cells, using an approach that is less inherently likely to destroy healthy cells along with senescent ones.

Chlorine is a toxic gas that destroys the healthy cells in our bodies on contact.Historically, chlorine gas was used as part of chemical warfare!

As you know by now, free radicals also destroy healthy cell walls and DNA, so there is collateral damage, too.

It gets rid of harmful free radicals by neutralizing them so that they do not destroy healthy cells.

Not exact matches

The cell nuclei are removed from both sets of embryonic cells, as shown in the diagram, the donor's nuclei and the remains of the parents» embryo are destroyed and the parents» nuclei are then inserted into the donor or «host» embryo, still containing its healthy mitochondria.

Barley grass may help prevent cancer due to the antioxidants it contains, which destroys the free radicals that damage healthy cells.

Curcumin in turmeric has the ability to modulate genetic activity and expression — both by destroying cancer cells and by promoting healthy cell function.

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.

The problem is that when T cells are allowed to attack, they can destroy both cancer cells and healthy cells, leading to a wide array of side effects.

In addition, the high doses of antibiotics needed to kill such an infection indiscriminately destroy healthy red blood cells in addition to contaminated ones.

In addition to using healthy cells to do their work for them, cancer cells also slowly destroy the skin's immune defence mechanism.

When the team transplanted the cells into diabetic mice whose own beta cells had been destroyed artificially with a chemical, the cells acted like healthy beta cells.

Somehow, when the microglia cells are armed with the renegade CD33, they go into overdrive, launching an indiscriminate search - and - destroy mission that strafes healthy neurons with friendly fire when too many amyloids start piling up.

In patients with colitis, inflammatory T cells in the lower intestines mistake the molecular structures of food or healthy gut bacteria for dangerous pathogens that must be destroyed.

In a bid to progress beyond the shotgun approach to fighting cancer — blasting malignant cells with toxic chemicals or radiation, which kills surrounding healthy cells in the process — researchers at the Harvard - MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) are using nanotechnology to develop seek - and - destroy models to zero in on and dismantle tumors without damaging nearby normal tissue.

Paizley, the teenager who was once nearly destroyed by sickle - cell disease, is now free of the illness that haunted her, free to attend school like all of her healthy friends.

Gleevec belongs to a new class of targeted cancer drugs designed to destroy tumor cells while sparing healthy ones.

Once inside, researchers found that the antibodies zeroed in on their targets — viral antigens — and the radioisotopes destroyed nearby cancer cells without damaging surrounding healthy tissue.

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.

He also spent a lot of time picturing himself healthy and visualizing good strong blood cells destroying the cancer in his body.

Melton says his lab has iPS cell lines from people with diabetes — both type 1 and type 2, in which the β cells are not destroyed — and healthy controls.

In healthy individuals, immune cells produce proteins called antibodies that attack foreign invaders to destroy them and clear them out of the system.

The team of researchers, working with biopharmaceutical company Autolus Ltd, have discovered a method of targeting the cancer without destroying healthy T - cells, essential to the immune system.

«Targeting cancer without destroying healthy T - cells: Unique approach to treatment of rare and aggressive blood cancers.»

Whilst the gene needs to be studied in greater depth to understand its potential for use in the clinic, we show that targeting KAT2A destroyed AML cells in the laboratory while sparing healthy blood cells.»

These genes can then cause cells to grow and divide uncontrollably, destroying neighbouring healthy cells.

«Since MCR works by targeting specific DNA sequences, in cases where diseased cells have altered DNA as in HIV - infected individuals or some types of cancer, MCR - based methods should be able to distinguish diseased from healthy cells and then be used to selectively either destroy or modify the diseased cells.»

The resulting compound works by a unique mechanism of action unlike any drug currently used in the treatment of cancer, and it destroys replicating and nonreplicating malignant cells while minimizing damage to surrounding, healthy cells.

Thus, given its deep history in understanding how organisms counter infection, LJI is well prepared to lead the charge against inflammatory disease, because often the same cells that rid us of infection are the ones that destroy healthy tissue in inflammatory or autoimmune disease.

Preliminary studies have shown that AML stem cells produce higher levels of CD47 than normal healthy cells, and that treatment with antibodies to block CD47 allows the immune system to destroy AML cells without harming healthy cells.

BSI member Professor Michael Dustin, explains, «While an overwhelming T - cell response might on the face of it sound effective, it brings risks of immunopathology, where an over-active immune system destroys healthy human tissue, not just the invading disease - causing pathogen.

In 2000, our founder Professor Yoram Palti sought to leverage his expertise in biophysics to develop a new way to treat cancer that would destroy tumor cells while sparing healthy tissue and avoiding many of the life - altering side effects of existing cancer therapies.

As we know, some of the tissues are regularly updated, and a regimen of regularly destroying old, mutated stem cell populations and reseed them with new and healthy ones will slow the rate of accumulation of cells bearing these disabling mutations.

It has also been found that it caused the death of cancer cells without destroying the normal healthy cells.

Namely the cancer destroying effects occurred at 6 - shogaol concentrations that were not harmful to other, healthy cells.

This means they can destroy free radicals in the body before they cause damage to healthy cells.

These futuristic nanites are microscopic robots that destroy cancerous tissue, repair damaged cells, and re-enforce existing cells, so the guy becomes impervious to disease and becomes stronger, fitter and healthier than ever.

Now we are beginning to see that glial cells «go rogue» and begin — unexplainably — to destroy nerve connections that are healthy, even essential for the brain's function.

It wreaks havoc on every system in the body, setting loose dangerous free radicals that seek healthy cells and stable nutrients to destroy.

Cancer cells, through the protein - destroying enzyme, matrix metalloproteinase squeeze their way into healthy cells and destroy surrounding tissue.

At any given moment, cells in the body are being born, growing, dividing, and being destroyed all to maintain a healthy balance called homeostasis.

During that decade, Dr. Budwig studied the health consequences of what we now call «trans» and hydrogenated fats and was one of the first to discover how these kinds of commercially - processed fats destroy electrons in the membranes of healthy cells.