Sentences with phrase «immune cells use»

Lysozyme is a kind of cellular bleach which immune cells use to dissolve the membranes of bacterial intruders.

Different types of immune cells use cytokine / chemokine as the language for communication.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have discovered a new component of the machinery immune cells use to generate a remarkably diverse array of antibodies from a relatively small number of...

In particular, they investigate how killer immune cells use pore forming protein perforin, antimicrobial peptide granulysin, and immune protease granzyme B in synergy to destroy pathogens in host cells.

The immune cells use the IL - 2 to continue to grow in the body and fight the cancer.

Aspergillus usually infects people with weakened lungs or immune systems, and is too big for a neutrophil to ingest, so the immune cells use their nets to deliver a concentrated dose of toxins.

Cytokines direct the biochemical conversation that immune cells use to coordinate their activities.

They were able to follow the activity of the immune cells using time - lapse 3 - D microscopy imaging of fish retinas and found that neutrophils, the type of immune cells that are typically the first responders to tissue injury, were largely unresponsive to photoreceptor death.

Dr. Ruxandra Sîrbulescu analyzes flow cytometry data on immune cells used in a wound healing study.

Not exact matches

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday gave Swiss drug giant Novartis a second approval for its pioneering CAR - T cancer therapy, which uses patients» own immune cells (re-engineered outside the body and then replicated) to destroy blood cancers.

Gilead subsidiary Kite Pharma (which the biotech giant scooped up ahead of the FDA's approval for Yescarta, a treatment that reengineers patients» immune cells to fight cancer) will have access to Sangamo's platform technology, which could be used to create various types of cancer cell therapies.

Cancer immunotherapies, or treatments that use the body's immune system to fight cancerous cells, were once again the most hotly anticipated drug class at the conference.

CAR - T cell therapy is a form of immunotherapy, a rapidly developing cancer treatment that uses patients» own immune cells to attack tumors.

The Napster founder and former Facebook president created the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, which will focus on using the body's immune system to combat cancer cells.

In 2014, the company raised $ 304 million to fund its experimental cancer treatments that use a person's own immune cells.

Immune oncology drugs use a mechanism to enable the immune system to «uncloak» hidden cancer cells in the body and then attack them.

Australian scientists have discovered that group of immune cells, once considered junk, are actually a secret weapon the body uses to fight disease.

Australian scientists have discovered that group of immune cells, once considered junk, are actually a secret weapon the body uses to fight...

Through CBR ®, we also help families to preserve newborn stem cells, which are used today in transplant medicine for certain cancers and blood, immune and metabolic disorders, and have the potential to play a valuable role in the ongoing development of regenerative medicine.

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And using cells from someone other than the cancer patient being treated might trigger an immune response against the foreign cells.

An immune response, triggered by foreign neural stem cells, could actually help attack tumors, says Evan Snyder, a stem cell biologist at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute in San Diego, California, and one of the early pioneers of the idea of using stem cells to attack tumors.

The 2016 People's Choice Award went to Emmanuelle Alaluf of the Free University of Brussels, for her video using ballet and other dance styles to show how tumor cells evade the immune system.

Using infections to turn the immune system against cancer cells is a 100 - year - old technique.

A group of the nation's leading cancer research scientists and their Cuban counterparts are exploring how to advance cancer therapy, diagnosis, and prevention, including the use of immunotherapy to harness the body's immune systems to attack and eliminate cancer cells.

Some tumor cells use this receptor to hide from the immune system (SN: 4/1/17, p. 24).

In the present study, the researchers have discovered a reason for reduced fertility in people with autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type 1 (APS1), which increases the risk of developing autoimmune disease (caused by the immune system attacking and damaging healthy cells) and which is often used as a model for autoimmune disease in general.

They use molecules on the bacteria's surfaces as reins, to ride towards host cells, or backstage passes to sneak past the immune system.

The treatment, called CAR - T immunotherapy, uses genetically engineered T cells, immune system fighters usually tasked with identifying invaders in the body,...

And a new analysis of the STEP trial, published last November in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, provides a warning that the very vectors (adenoviruses, which are also employed in other vaccine development work) used to distribute the inactive HIV strains can actually make the immune system more vulnerable to infection by recruiting susceptible T cells to mucous membranes, where they are more likely to be infected during sexual activity.

A type of immune therapy known as PD - 1 blockade controlled cancer in 77 percent of patients with defects in DNA mismatch repair — the system cells use to spell - check and fix errors in DNA (SN Online: 10/7/15).

The landmark achievement revives the hope of being able to generate new tissues using a patient's own cells, eliminating the risk of immune rejection.

Taking a closer look, the team found that the onset of sepsis disrupts the normal activity of specific interferons, signaling proteins used for communication between immune system cells.

A drug used to stop immune cells from gobbling up transplanted organs and bone marrow has been caught boosting the immune response to a virus in mice and monkeys.

«Using these new cells we might achieve organ acceptance in liver transplants, without touching the remaining immune system,» says co-author Luis Graca.

But cancer cells can escape immune surveillance using a variety of techniques to disguise themselves.

It is similar to how radiation and chemotherapy are used to «condition» patients for a bone marrow transplant, to improve engraftment of transplanted immune cells.

Furthermore, the team found that ONA inhibited the pro-tumor functions of myeloid derived suppressor cells (MDSC), which are closely associated with the suppression of the anti-tumor immune response of host lymphocytes, by using preclinical sarcoma model.

In a paper published in the current online issue of the journal Small, titled «Immune Cell - Mediated Biodegradable Theranostic Nanoparticles for Melanoma Targeting,» the researchers report the use of a novel biodegradable and photoluminescent poly (lactic acid) nanoparticle, loaded with melanoma - specific drugs with immune cells as the nanoparticle carriers.

Patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer will always progress after chemotherapy, so most patients go on to be treated with immunotherapy, a type of therapy that uses the body's immune system to fight cancer.

In addition to using healthy cells to do their work for them, cancer cells also slowly destroy the skin's immune defence mechanism.

The so - called STEP trial, sponsored by pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. and the federally funded HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN), was the first to test the idea of stimulating the immune system's killer T cells to hunt for the virus more aggressively, in this case using a weakened form of the cold virus to carry three genes from HIV.

They use a near - infrared laser beam, which can penetrate deep — in this context, deep means a centimeter or two — into the tissue, where a nanoparticle turns the near - infrared light into blue light, and that directs the activity of genetically engineered immune cells.

Lu's team will extract immune cells called T cells from the blood of the enrolled patients, and then use CRISPR — Cas9 technology — which pairs a molecular guide able to identify specific genetic sequences on a chromosome with an enzyme that can snip the chromosome at that spot — to knock out a gene in the cells.

It wasn't easy: unlike nerve cells, immune cells don't use tiny electrical impulses to communicate.

Last year, researchers at NIAID and elsewhere solved a decade - long mystery when they found that HIV uses a second set of proteins to gain entry into immune cells.

«Other scientists will likely use the technique to help them study immune, heart and other types of cells that use calcium to perform their tasks,» Zhou said.

«New technique uses immune cells to deliver anti-cancer drugs.»

«We believe that small subsets of metastatic tumor cells have the ability to adopt the mechanisms used by immune cells to exit the blood vessels into the lungs, the bone marrow, the brain, and other organs.