Sentences with phrase «kill tumor cells damage»

They discovered that the chemicals and radiation used to kill tumor cells damage the stem cell reservoir in the hippocampus and nearly halt the formation of new neurons in both children and adults.

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In a bid to progress beyond the shotgun approach to fighting cancer — blasting malignant cells with toxic chemicals or radiation, which kills surrounding healthy cells in the process — researchers at the Harvard - MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) are using nanotechnology to develop seek - and - destroy models to zero in on and dismantle tumors without damaging nearby normal tissue.

Chemotherapies are potent toxins delivered into the bloodstream to kill tumor cells throughout the body by damaging DNA in rapidly dividing cells.

Now researchers have found a way to kill tumor cells in test tubes without inflicting any collateral damage on healthy cells.

David Raulet and colleagues show that the DNA damage response, a kinase cascade induced in early stage cancer cells, induces tumor cells to display ligands that activate natural killer cells and induce tumor cell killing.