Sentences with phrase «hijacked by cancer cells»

One miRNA can target multiple genes, but their expression is often hijacked by cancer cells and disrupts multiple cancer - causing or tumor - suppressing pathways,» says Shuk - Mei Ho, PhD, director of the CCC and Jacob G. Schmidlapp Chair of Environmental Health and professor at the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine.

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«We think some of these genes could be «hijacked» by cancer cells and may contribute to the shared invasive characteristics of the placenta and cancer,» Sutherland says.

Duke scientist are learning more about the process in which melanoma cells hijack dendritic cells, allowing cancer to avoid detection by the immune system.

Now a team led by researchers at the Duke Cancer Institute have identified a cellular process that cancer cells hijack to hoard cholesterol and fuel their gCancer Institute have identified a cellular process that cancer cells hijack to hoard cholesterol and fuel their gcancer cells hijack to hoard cholesterol and fuel their growth.

These tumors might yield to a new kind of drug known as a PARP inhibitor that kills cancer cells by hijacking the cell's ability to mend DNA breaks.

Paper author, Professor Margaret Frame, Cancer Research UK scientist at the Edinburgh Cancer Research UK Centre, said: «We've shown that cancer cells can adapt to the problems caused by stress, by hijacking normal cell waste disposal to «bag up and bin'toxic proCancer Research UK scientist at the Edinburgh Cancer Research UK Centre, said: «We've shown that cancer cells can adapt to the problems caused by stress, by hijacking normal cell waste disposal to «bag up and bin'toxic proCancer Research UK Centre, said: «We've shown that cancer cells can adapt to the problems caused by stress, by hijacking normal cell waste disposal to «bag up and bin'toxic procancer cells can adapt to the problems caused by stress, by hijacking normal cell waste disposal to «bag up and bin'toxic proteins.

Some of the same biochemical players that protect the body by controlling the inflammation response of cells can also be hijacked by genetic mutations involved in the development of cancer.

CD8 + T - cells (or killer T - cells) are a kind of immune cell that specializes in destroying cells that have been hijacked by viruses or by cancer.