Sentences with phrase «detecting cancer cells in the body»

A new method for detecting cancer cells in the body could one day be used to remove them, like a dialysis machine for cancer, the UNSW researcher who helped develop the system says.

1994 DNA replication errors, called clonal markers, are used by Johns Hopkins Cancer Center investigators to detect cancer cells in body fluids, tissues, and secretions, at the very earliest stages, before the cancer is detected by pathology.

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These nanobots are built to detect cancer cells in the human body and apply treatment directly to them.

What if we have technology that can detect a single cancer cell in the body?

Immunotherapy is an emerging field in the global fight against cancer, even though scientists and clinicians have been working for decades to find ways to help the body's immune system detect and attack cancerous cells.

Northwestern University scientists now have demonstrated a simple but powerful tool that can detect live cancer cells in the bloodstream, potentially long before the cells could settle somewhere in the body and form a dangerous tumor.

Siva Vanapalli, an associate professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, at Texas Tech University, recently received two grants from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) to study the movement of tumor cells throughout the body and new methods of detecting cancer Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) to study the movement of tumor cells throughout the body and new methods of detecting cancer cancer cells.

As DNA damage is often one of the early steps in the development of cancer, the detection of micronuclei by cGAS could therefore be an important early alarm system allowing the human body to detect and remove potentially cancerous cells.

Fresh insights into how cells detect damage to their DNA — a hallmark of cancer — could help explain how the body keeps disease in check.

The immune response triggered by fetal cells might help the body detect cancer cells later in life.

Depending on the type of cancer, chemotherapy can destroy cancer cells so they are no longer detected in the body.

Fact # 3: The technology that conventional medicine uses to detect cancer in various parts on the body is based on a PET scan (Positron Emission Tomography), which takes advantage of cancer cells» voracious appetite for sugar.