Sentences with phrase «kill brain tumor cells»

Encapsulated toxin - producing stem cells (in blue) help kill brain tumor cells in the tumor resection cavity (in green).

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His work indicates that this cell surface marker could serve as a target for a novel brain cancer vaccine or T - cell therapies engineered to recognize and kill tumors carrying that neoantigen.

In human cells and in mice, the virus infected and killed the stem cells that become a glioblastoma, an aggressive brain tumor, but left healthy brain cells alone.

In the Cell study, Dr. Massagué, with Fellow Manuel Valiente, PhD, and other team members, found that in mouse models of breast and lung cancer — two tumor types that often spread to the brain — many cancer cells that enter the brain are killed by astrocytes.

«Herpes - loaded stem cells used to kill brain tumors.»

An experimental drug in early development for aggressive brain tumors can cross the blood - brain tumor barrier, kill tumor cells and block the growth of tumor blood vessels, according to a study led by researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center — Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC — James).

There is plenty of anecdotal evidence out there claiming a link between cell phone use and cancer: Keith Black, chairman of neurosurgery at Cedars - Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, says that the brain cancer (malignant glioma) that killed O. J. Simpson's attorney, Johnnie Cochran, was the result of frequent cell phone use, based on the fact that the tumor developed on the side of the head against which he held his phone.

Subsequent surgery on vaccinated patients has shown that the T cells are finding and killing tumor cells in the brain, but not enough of them.

«A few years ago we recognized that stem cells could be used to continuously deliver these therapeutic toxins to tumors in the brain, but first we needed to genetically engineer stem cells that could resist being killed themselves by the toxins,» he said.

Because the stem cells generate the brain cancer cells, killing off the stem cells might prevent tumors from recurring.

Study author, Dr Timothy Humphrey said «Mutations in SETD2 are frequently found in kidney cancer and some childhood brain tumors, so we were excited when we discovered that a new drug we were studying specifically killed cancer cells with this mutation.»

The screening revealed coibamide A to be capable of killing many types of cancer cells, but Ishmael decided to focus subsequent studies on two types in particular — brain tumors, or glioblastomas, and a breast cancer subtype known as triple negative breast cancer.

Researchers demonstrated that the drugs pemetrexed and gemcitabine killed cells from mouse and human brain tumors, called group 3 medulloblastoma, growing in the laboratory.

«Our results are the first to provide insight into ways of targeting multiple brain metastatic deposits with stem - cell - loaded oncolytic viruses that specifically kill dividing tumor cells.»

Investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute have a potential solution for how to kill tumor cells that have metastasized to the brain.

Treatment with HSV1 - TK is expected to kill transduced brain cells, thus exposing tumor antigen.

The idea: trigger immune activity within the brain itself to kill remaining tumor cells — the ones neurosurgeons can't take out, which make this type of tumor so dangerous.