Pseudomonas also will
kill human lung cells in tissue culture dishes.
We've also found that in a petri dish, the anti-quorum-sensing molecule prevents Pseudomonas from
killing human lung cells and from making a biofilm that would enable it to mount an attack.
Not exact matches
After «inhaling» E. coli, for instance, the
lung attracted
human white blood cells to attack and
kill the bacteria, a process scientists have long understood but never before witnessed in vitro.
After nestling inside the
human lung, they can cause a severe infection that, if not treated with antibiotics,
kills 90 % of those it infects.
This compound
killed human breast, prostate,
lung, and liver cancer cells, while sparing normal cells.
The result was a highly selective drug they named SBI - 0206965, which successfully
killed a number of cancer cell types, including
human and mouse
lung cancer cells and
human brain cancer cells, some of which were previously shown to be particularly reliant on cellular recycling.