Sentences with phrase «destroying other cells»

The results of not having this electron is altering and or destroying other cells.

It is a treatment which uses an antibody that targets specifically multiple myeloma cells without destroying any other cells.

Not exact matches

Many weave in and out of lanes at very high speeds sometimes in bad weather and / or text on cell phones or drink and drive, risking harm to others and possibly destroying families.

In 2014, Christiano and other CUMC researchers identified the immune cells responsible for destroying hair follicles in people with alopecia areata and tested an FDA - approved drug that led to complete hair regrowth in a small number of patients.

During that process, chromosomes pairs get drawn apart and duplicated, but only one of the four resulting chromosomes will make it into the egg cell; the others are destroyed.

In these and other inherited diseases, 10 to 15 percent of the single - base pair mutations that cause the disease create a misplaced, premature «stop» codon in the middle of the gene — causing the machinery of the cell to prematurely halt synthesis of the protein, which destroys its ability to function.

The other was mice that were treated with a chemical to destroy their beta cells.

The viruses also exploit an enzyme that cells use to destroy RNA to instead produce short stretches of RNA that, among other things, may help the virus avoid the immune system of its host.

Cells known as osteoblasts make new bone; other cells, osteoclasts, destroy old Cells known as osteoblasts make new bone; other cells, osteoclasts, destroy old cells, osteoclasts, destroy old bone.

Metastasis, or cancer spread by the formation of tumors at new sites, is generally what makes cancers deadly because surgery and other treatments are unlikely to find and destroy every cancer cell.

The therapy uses a designer ribozyme, a short strand of RNA that chops up other RNA, to seek and destroy mutant RNA before it can be used to build a protein that kills the eye's rod cells.

Others trumpeted «alternative» techniques that promise the creation of embryonic stem cells without destroying embryos.

Once lymphocytes find such invaders within the lymph node, they destroy them in collaboration with other types of immune cells.

But the rats retained a host of other memory and navigation - related skills that scientists had previously speculated would be destroyed without grid cells.

Nerve cells, for example, form long extensions that are attracted to signals from other cells in order to produce the network that forms the nervous system; similarly, scavenger cells recognise the scent of harmful germs in order that they can pursue and destroy them.

Genetic diseases like retinitis pigmentosa destroy the photosensitive cells of the eye, the photoreceptors, but often leave intact the other cells in the retina: the bipolar cells that the photoreceptors normally talk to, and the ganglion cells that are the retina's output to the brain.

In other words, APOBEC3A preempts a potential mutation by LINE - 1 jumping, by itself causing a mutation in the new LINE - 1 copy that the cell then destroys.

They have detected, for example, revved up signaling molecules involved in inflammation, such as tumor necrosis factor α (TNFα) and other cytokines; skewed populations of natural killer cells and other immune cells; imbalances in the protein - destroying enzymes called proteases; and a shortening of the telomeres, the «end caps» on chromosomes, which indicates prematurely aged cells.

Pro-embryo groups and others, including two scientists who study adult stem cells, argued that the NIH guidelines violated the Dickey - Wicker Amendment, a 16 - year - old law banning federal funds for «research in which... embryos are destroyed.»

The other end of the receptor sets off a chain reaction when such a B cell is bound, eventually leading the T cell to destroy the cancerous cell.

Other work revealed that doses of manganese trigger cells to destroy GPP130, indicating that the metal might disrupt delivery of the poison.

Other blood disorders that have shown significant benefit from targeted gene therapy in small trials include hemophilia (specifically, factor IX deficiency), severe beta - thalassemia (deficiency for the adult beta - globin gene) and leukemia, where the patient's immune cells were treated to enable them to recognize cancer cells and destroy them.

Worse, instead of being destroyed and recycled by the cell — the typical fate of misfolded proteins — prions resist degradation and cause other normal prion proteins to misfold.

Other genetic diseases include Tay - Sachs disease (damage to the gene for the enzyme hexosaminidase A leads to an accumulation of a chemical in the brain that destroys it), sickle cell anemia (improper coding of the gene that produces hemoglobin), hemophilia (lack of a gene for a blood - clotting factor) and muscular dystrophy (caused by a defective gene on the X chromosome).

Those other immune cells destroy the germs and remove them from the body.

The iPSCs eventually turned into fully active, cancer - specific T - lymphocytes - in other words, cells that target and destroy cancer cells.

It sends antibodies and other immune cells to stop and destroy the invader.

In a typical immune response, for instance, inflammatory proteins called cytokines will be released by immune cells at a site of inflammation and then other immune cells will use these cytokines like a trail of breadcrumbs to home in on the site of infection and destroy the pathogens that are causing it.

Schneeberger said that what he and many others «have seen» is that in PD, as in AD, «once the the brain cells are destroyed, getting them back is probably impossible.

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.

The results of her project will help scientists develop novel therapies to target the regulatory proteins that cause CD47 overproduction in leukemia and other cancer stem cells, with the goal of restoring immunosurveillance and enabling the immune system to recognize and destroy these aberrant cancer cells.

Dendritic cells digest foreign and cancerous proteins and present them to other immune cells to destroy them.

DeGette and others who support her, Earll said, «are fixated on ancient history when it comes to destroying embryos for stem cell research.»

Pawlenty, Bush and other critics of the research propose funding studies on stem cells taken from adults rather than destroying embryos to harvest the cells.

Macrophages are cells known as the «big eaters» of the immune system for their ability to engulf and destroy bacteria and other harmful things.

Stem cells can then be harvested and used to create brain, skin, heart and other tissue for treating diseases before the embryos are destroyed.

He decided to branch into other fields in his quest to better engineer cancer - destroying T cells and joined the lab of nanoparticle expert Dr. Darrell Irvine at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In cancer, Tregs are recruited by tumors and prevent other types of T cells, including cytotoxic T cells (also called CD8 cells) from attacking and destroying cancer cells.

Leaving the distressed cells alone risks having them cause collateral damage to other cells, while destroying them eliminates potentially critical brain cells, many of which don't regenerate.

The virus is engineered to grow in cancer cells, destroy these tumors, and then spread to other cancer sites.

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

Strong evidence however shows that this doesn't mean that cells are actually «destroyed» or «lost», but instead they are moved to other parts of the body such as the lungs which have more of a chance of becoming infected.

They pack a powerful punch to fight free radicals (highly reactive forms of oxygen that can destroy cell membranes, and other structures including DNA and collagen).

In type 1 diabetes, on the other hand, more than 90 percent of the insulin - producing cells have been destroyed.

Some of the white blood cells go towards helping to destroy the current infection, while other white blood cells help to create memory against the infection - providing us with long term immunity.

Other developing therapies for type 1 diabetes either target the autoimmune condition or look to replace the destroyed islet cells, but not both together.

This overactive immune response means that normal intestinal cells are destroyed by the immune system, nutrients are not absorbed properly, inflammation, digestive issues like diarrhea, constipation, brain fog, chronic fatigue, and many other symptoms will ensue.

Telomeres protect a cell's chromosomes from fusing with each other or rearranging — abnormalities which can lead to cancer — and so cells are normally destroyed when their telomeres are consumed.

In other cases, it may be due to heavy blood loss or a condition in which the body destroys red blood cells.

It is prescribed for edema in Germany and may be safer than other remedies because it replenishes potassium.910 Preliminary animal studies suggest that dandelion may help normalize blood sugar and fight inflammation.11 Dandelion root extract caused cancer cells to destroy themselves in a Canadian lab study, which prompted a clinical study (the results of which are not yet available).12