Sentences with phrase «experiments on cancer cells»

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It's only been tested on mice so far, but the results are tremendously promising for an antibody Stanford researchers have been experimenting with that blocks the body from «eating» cancer cells.

In experiments on normal and MLL cells from mice and humans, the researchers demonstrated that beta - catenin is activated in cancer stem cells that prompt leukaemic blood cells to multiply.

«In our experiments, our nanoparticles successfully delivered a test gene to brain cancer cells in mice, where it was then turned on,» says Jordan Green, Ph.D., an assistant professor of biomedical engineering and neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

To test their hypothesis, the researchers carried out experiments on human melanoma cells, a line of cancer cells they chose for their ability to grow easily and quickly.

In experiments on dog cancer cells in the laboratory it was found that the newly developed antibodies did, in fact, bind to canine cancer cells with greater specificity.

The researchers performed lab experiments on cells derived from a cervical cancer and found that when DOHH is blocked, a protein known as eIF5A fails to mature.

«Our experiments showed that restoring H19 expression hindered by too much p53 restored «protective differentiation» of osteoblasts to counter events of tumor growth early on in bone cancer,» said co-author, Ihor Lemischka, PhD, Director of The Black Family Stem Cell Institute within the Icahn School of Medicine.

Experiments on pancreas organoids — models that are essentially balls of cells sampled from the pancreas of healthy people and pancreatic cancer patients — showed that lowering antioxidant levels within cancerous pancreas cells, or cells on the way to becoming cancerous, kills them.

In co-culture experiments on coated transfilters, both NAFs and CAFs induced migration and invasion of HT29, which are intrinsically noninvasive colon cancer cells.

Researchers can also find information on the cancer cell lines that are most suitable for their experiments.

Fortunately, experiments done by Dr. Jan Vijg at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and others on mutations (changes in base sequence in DNA) and additional studies commissioned by SENS Research Foundation on epimutations (changes in the arrangement of methyl groups) suggest that these latter kinds of alterations - the kind that accumulate in cells without triggering apoptosis or senescence or contributing to cancer - accumulate too slowly to make a difference with the current lifespan.

In the experiments described in the paper, the MGH team confirmed that their mesothelin - targeting fusion protein binds to mesothelin on either ovarian cancer or mesothelioma cells, activates dendritic cells, and enhances the cells» processing and presentation of several different tumor antigens, inducing a number of T - cell - based immune responses.

In the study, which was published last year in Nature, researchers experimented with various types of dietary restriction, using fluorescent proteins to mark cancer cells and determine the effect of fasting on levels.

Since these experiments were only performed on cancer cells in test tubes, the researchers took the next step and ran tests on breast cancer tumors in live mice.

Part of the talk discussed results of experiments which showed the inhibiting effects of diet (plant substances) on cancer cell growth.