Sentences with phrase «invade cells while»

Cells of plants and animals have evolved over millennia to produce molecules that specifically degrade RNA of viruses that invade cells while not attacking the cell's own mRNA.

Not exact matches

Cancer Research UK scientists at The University of Manchester found that some melanoma cells are particularly fast growing, but not very good at invading the surrounding tissue, while other melanoma cells are the opposite — highly invasive but slow - growing.

While the regulatory landscapes of ILCs are primed for a quick defense upon infection, those of T cells are minimally prepared when the pathogen invades.

They promote the proliferation of B cells that produce highly selective antibodies against invading pathogens while weeding out those that generate potentially harmful ones.

«There are two types of T cells — CD8 and CD4 — which battle invading pathogens,» explains lead author Pablo Penaloza - MacMaster, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the Barouch laboratory and Instructor of Medicine at HMS «The CD8 T cells take the lead in eliminating virally infected cells while the CD4 «helper» T cells function indirectly, serving to bolster the responses of both CD8 T cells and antibody - producing B cells.»

The microscope has been used to peer inside blood vessels being invaded by cancer cells and capture white blood cells while they chomp down on sugars inside a fish eyeball.

While the cancer normally excludes immune T - cells, the Evans lab discovered that modified vitamin D reprograms the cancer environment in a way that may allow the Merck drug Keytruda ® to invade and destroy the tumor.

BSI member Professor Michael Dustin, explains, «While an overwhelming T - cell response might on the face of it sound effective, it brings risks of immunopathology, where an over-active immune system destroys healthy human tissue, not just the invading disease - causing pathogen.

While there are many different types of cancer, all of them stem from the abnormal growth of cells that invade numerous body sites, quickly leading to the formation of tumours that are either benign (restricted to a local area and removable) or malignant (invasive, spreading throughout the body).