Sentences with phrase «from immune attack»

«But in targeting PLSCR1, we've effectively shielded infected cells from immune attack and increased gene expression from an engineered virus from a few days or weeks to at least six months, creating the potential for much longer - lasting therapies.»

A primary reason for doing this is that, by coating themselves in sialic acids acquired from their host, they look like a «host cell» and are shielded from immune attack.

The group believes HPV is shed from the tonsil during an active infection and gets trapped in the biofilm, where it may be protected from immune attack.

CANCER»S SWEET CLOAK Large surface proteins with chains of sugars (illustrated, yellow) on the outside of a cancer cell hide the tumor from immune attack and lull the immune system into a do - nothing trance.

Melton said that the device Anderson and his colleagues at MIT are currently testing has thus far protected beta cells implanted in mice from immune attack for many months.

Frustratingly, cancer cells have evolved their own ways to defend from immune attack, such as dressing up in molecules that form an invisibility cloak.

Salk Institute researchers discovered that inhibiting a protein called phospholipid scramblase 1 (PLSCR1) controls the infected cell's antiviral response and provides long - term protection from immune attack and excessive inflammation.

In healthy individuals, these immune checkpoints prevent autoimmunity, but many cancers exploit the same pathways to shield themselves from an immune attack.

An emerging approach to treating disease combines living cells with plastic membranes that shield the cells from immune attack

Now, new research by CRI postdoctoral researcher Ingunn Stromnes, Ph.D., suggests why: pancreatic tumors wrap themselves in a defense cloak that protects them from an immune attack.

How do we put these cells into a teabag that would allow glucose to come in and insulin to go out and protect the cells from immune attack?