Sentences with phrase «helped human white blood cells»

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It's not all just fun and games: Understanding how cells — especially white blood cells — navigate through the human body could help scientists create better treatments for cancer, infectious disease, and autoimmune disorders.

In laboratory experiments, Dr. Weinberger and his team inserted a green fluorescent protein, or «vector,» into the DNA of Jurkat T lymphocytes — a type of white blood cell that helps maintain a healthy human immune system.

Furthermore, saturated fat has been shown to have numerous positive effects on health, such as improving liver health by encouraging the liver cells to get rid of their fat cells, improving the immune system's response by helping white blood cells to recognize and destroy invaders more effectively, enabling the absorption of fat - soluble vitamins by acting as their carriers, as well as improving hormonal activity by providing the building blocks for a variety of hormones that are essential to human health.

Although human studies are limited, animal and test tube research have shown time and time again that cordyceps has the capacity to destroy cancer cells, help normalize low white blood cell count occurring as a result of chemotherapy, and even make certain medications more toxic to cancer cells.