Sentences with phrase «injected into the body»

US have developed a tiny biochip that can be injected into the body to monitor alcohol levels over a prolonged period, with the aim of supporting patients in substance abuse programmes.

«It was illegal for them to administer a simple device like this that takes about 16 seconds to inject into the body to save someone's life,» Sen. Murphy said.

Nanoscientist Jinwoo Cheon of Yonsei University in Seoul and colleagues set out to create a nanoparticle that would get hotter than traditional nanoparticles so that not as many would need to be injected into the body.

They developed a radioactive tracer that, when injected into the body, binds with a key protein that is present in all synapses across the brain.

In an attempt to do this, the researchers used a technique known as radioimmunotherapy in which radioisotopes (unstable elements that release radiation) mounted on antibodies (protein molecules akin to infection search - and - destroy missiles) are injected into the body.

When injected into the body, docetaxel doesn't discriminate between healthy and cancerous cells.

«Often things go wrong right away when stem or therapeutic cells are injected into the body because some cells can migrate, while other dying cells are eaten by the body and expelled,» says Xiao - an Zhang, an assistant professor of chemistry at U of T Scarborough.

Flu vaccines are killed or highly weakened viruses that, when injected into the body, alert the immune system to fight the real thing.

«New nanogel for drug delivery: Self - healing gel can be injected into the body and act as a long - term drug depot.»

A new postage stamp - sized device could be injected into the body to help with medical imaging.

And existing contrast agents — chemicals injected into the body to make tumors visible — leave the tissues too quickly to be used in a lengthy, whole - body MRI.

After the filaments are injected into the body, the resulting hydrogel network functions as a drug depot that slowly degrades by breaking down into spherical nanomaterials called micelles, which are programmed to travel to specific targets.

When a subject — a Franciscan nun, in one case — feels her ordinary self «dissolving into Christ consciousness,» as she describes it, a radioactive fluid is injected into her body through an intravenous tube; the fluid travels to her brain and becomes trapped in nerve cells there.

Later, I find people are having it injected into their bodies... hmmm... seems a bit odd if you think about it.

HCG can be injected into the body or taken via a pill supplement.

A parasitic alien soul is injected into the body of Melanie Stryder.

Using a frozen egg, Arbogast fertilizes it with his own sperm and injects it into his body, causing him to become pregnant.

In both scenarios I am going to be getting a needle injected into my body, but when I know the outcome is positive, that needle doesn't seem so bad anymore.

Not exact matches

Instead of being injected into the bloodstream and exposed to the rest of the body's tissue — with all the unpleasant side effects, as is the case with chemotherapy — these agents only target cancer cells.

Or consider a vaccine that, when injected directly into a tumor, would not only destroy the malignant cells but also stimulate the body's immune system to go after similar tumor cells.

One that is probably not already mentioned here: Because tattoos are a result of injecting foreign chemicals into your body, they undermine the immune system, which is a great way to increase the possibility of getting cancer and other diseases.

Like an alien body, like an activating ferment injected into the mass, it gives the world no peace, it bars slumber, it teaches the world to be discontented and restless as long as the world has not God, it stimulates the movement of history.

I was wondering if there has been a method developed for injecting capsaicin from the habinero pepper into the body for health reasons and thereby avoid the hotness in actually having to eat the pepper to get the benefits.AlanHello Alan: No injections but there are cayenne capsules that you can swallow to avoid the burning sensation.Dave

Since the procedure involves taking your own blood and immediately injecting it back into your own body, the NFL, MLB, NBA, and the World Anti-Doping Agency have all stated that PRP treatment is allowed.

I hope I've modeled for them what to look for by my priorities — family and friends over material things and status — and how I respect my body; I'd never inject poison or plastic into or overload it with crappy food.

I don't know about the eye thing, but I have heard that in certain gyno procedures infant formula will be injected inside the woman's body — like, into her womb and fallopian tubes.

(Seriously, though, who would really let strangers stick them in a radiation chamber and inject green slime into their body?!?)

Some women choose the flu shot to increase immunity, while others look to more natural options in order to avoid injecting anything into their bodies.

This filler is injected into the face and it can encourage the body to produce collagen.

As they are injected into the child, the body system produces antibodies to fight the disease and develops immunity.

I am not trying to be an expert, however, with an array of virtually unheard of medical problems (including malignant hypothermia, and erythropoetic protoporphyria) I do not take injecting things into my body lightly, as my entire organ structure is a little differently.

The study most often used to argue that hydrogel is dangerous found it was toxic only when injected directly into a rat's vein or body cavity.

Systemic drugs are delivered by IV or injected into muscle, and will affect your entire body.

He also said that the database would contain a body tag, to be fixed to the body of the vehicles for effective monitoring and redistributing of routes for businesses and that about 5,000 commercial buses would be injected into the transport sector to ensure safety and spread of buses and to ease transportation challenges in the state.

They want to make her politics establishment politics, to inject them into the fabric of the body politic.

Injecting this mix into the body prompts the development of antibodies that can latch onto any intruder that resembles the flu — helping prevent infection.

So the scientists injected these engineered pathogens into rats and mice at cool parts of the body, such as the fleshy regions of the ear and the base of the tail.

To test the cells» abilities, the researchers injected them into the injured body parts of rodents with diabetes or injuries that cut off blood flow to the retina, heart or hind leg.

To address this, Lagasse has injected hepatocytes into lymph nodes in peripheral parts of a mouse's body — under the knee or arm — because that requires less invasive surgery.

These days, medical X-rays come in multiple formats: plain film used in dental exams and doctors» offices; fluoroscopy, which bounces a continuous X-ray beam off contrast agents you've either injected or ingested, providing a moving real - time image of arteries and intestines; and the computed tomography (CT) scan, which couples a powerful computer with a circular array of extremely sensitive detectors to turn X-rays into detailed cross sections of the body.

During copulation, the male stabs the female's abdomen with his sharp phallus, bypassing her reproductive tract and injecting sperm directly into her body.

Dendritic cells are too large to pass through the blood - brain barrier, which is one reason they have to be cultured with brain tumor cells outside the body, then injected back into the patient's skin as a vaccine.

Built to annihilate any cell carrying weak EBV, the T cells are injected back into the patient's body, where they efficiently kill the cancer with nary a side effect.

By injecting T - VEC into the patients» tumors, even those that were located deeper in the body, the researchers were able to transform cold tumors into hot ones, which in turn allowed pembrolizumab to deliver a beneficial enhancement.

They've even injected white blood cells into the vessels and watched as they squeezed through gaps in the vessel wall to reach the tissue on the other side, just as they do in the human body.

The Swiss researchers believe that PG5 can nestle medicine in its myriad folds and, when injected into the bloodstream, deliver a therapeutic dose to the right locations in the body.

So they injected the organism into microscopic zebrafish larvae, which have clear bodies, and watched the infection take hold.

For decades, researchers said, insulin - based diabetes treatments consisted of three main strategies — inject insulin into diabetics, provide drugs that stimulate insulin secretion, or administer drugs that make the body more sensitive to insulin.

Kipnis and his colleagues wondered how smart mice would be if they had a normal supply of T cells everywhere in their bodies except the meninges, so he injected a compound into mice that prevented T cells from reaching the meninges.

Contrast agents, injected into the patient during an MRI procedure and designed to be quickly cleared from the body by the kidneys afterwards, are needed to make fine details of organ structures, blood vessels, and other specific tissues clearly visible in the images.