Sentences with phrase «like human cancer»

The Xie Lab demonstrated that differentiation - defective Drosophila ovarian germline stem cells (GSCs), behaving like human cancer stem cells, can out - compete normal stem cells for a position in the niche.

... The projects that are ongoing, like the Human Cancer Genome Project, [have] really opened up a lot of possibilities to understand the molecular basis of cancer.

Like human cancers, the disease is caused by the uncontrollable growth of abnormal cells on or...

Like human cancers, the disease is caused by the uncontrollable growth of abnormal cells on or within the body.

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The Center for Human Sleep Science found that getting less than seven hours of sleep a nigh can be linked to medical ailments like cancer, obesity and poor mental health.

She says animals are following similar health patterns as humans, like how around one out of eight females of either species gets breast cancer.

By the way could the «BrainWashing» be from the uses of those Funny Shampoos and Products which are said to contain so many bad chemicals that could lead to cancers??! Any way I thought brainwashed one's are less human affectionate, rather acting as Robots in many ways so better check who does appear like that...!

all the hoopla to tell humans what they already knew... how about some thing of real value like the cure for cancer,, heart disease, diabetes,?

It must be addressed as a result of the fall, like Cancer, which is treated though God's working through human agents and rarely through miraculous intervention.

He believes that the popularly «conservative» refusal to relate global warming to human activity is like tobacco company executives» denial of a link between smoking and lung cancer.

For one thing, the beans contain a substance that behaves very much like estrogen in the human body — which has the potential to increase cancer risks, as well as contribute to developmental problems in children.

Like the other health experts, Freed said it is important for that section that mentions cancer to refer to the 2012 C8 study, a groundbreaking years - long study of PFOA exposure in humans.

Human breast cancers can be classified according to their histological and molecular features into different subtypes, including luminal, ERBB2 and basal - like tumors.

Like humans, mice with cancer experience severe muscle wasting.

The drug - like compounds can be modified and developed into medicines that target a protein in the human body that is responsible for chemotherapy resistance in cancers, said biochemist Pia D. Vogel, lead author on the scientific paper reporting the discovery.

Sinclair thinks that these mouse models indicate that resveratrol may be effective in preventing age - related diseases in humans, like cancer, heart disease and type 2 diabetes.

Moreover, epalrestat, a drug that inhibits AKR1B1 and is approved in Japan to treat peripheral neuropathies associated with diabetes, was similarly able to block the growth and metastasis of human basal - like breast cancer cells.

Compared to a control (left), epalrestat treatment (right) reduces the number of metastatic tumors (arrowheads) in the lungs of mice injected with human basal - like breast cancer cells.

The stem cells, derived from human umbilical cord - blood and coaxed into an embryonic - like state, were grown without the conventional use of viruses, which can mutate genes and initiate cancers, according to the scientists.

Dogs and cats now suffer from obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer and more, just like humans, and researchers are now investigating common risk factors for pets and owners

Also like a weed, cancer can't grow on its own — it needs nourishment, which it drains from the human body, just as weeds take nutrients in the soil away from other plants.

She expects she will find laminum - 8 uniquely overexpressed in other invasive cancers, like lung and colon cancer, but to date she has tested for it in only human brain and metastatic breast cancer.

«There are still many questions left to answer but we now know that oxygen poor environments, like those often found in advanced human breast cancers serve as nurseries for the birth of cancer stem cells,» says Gregg Semenza, M.D., Ph.D., the C. Michael Armstrong Professor of Medicine and a member of the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Ccancer stem cells,» says Gregg Semenza, M.D., Ph.D., the C. Michael Armstrong Professor of Medicine and a member of the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer CCancer Center.

The title of the paper is «Bioinformatic analysis reveals a pattern of STAT3 - associated gene expression specific to basal - like breast cancers in human tumors.»

Another is that the transplanted bits of tumor act nothing like cancers in actual human brains, Fine and colleagues reported in 2006: Real - life glioblastomas grow and spread and resist treatment because they contain what are called tumor stem cells, but tumor stem cells don't grow well in the lab, so they don't get transplanted into those mouse brains.

New studies could include gene therapies in humans with visual problems like macular degeneration or retinal cancer.

In humans, disorders like Down syndrome and some cancers result from extra copies of chromosomes.

Among them, novel genes like RHEBL1, AMHR2, PSMG1, or AGER were identified that have never before been linked to general aging processes and lifespan, but are known to directly contribute to the development of aging - associated diseases like cancer or Alzheimer's disease in humans.

«Just like human breast cancer, there are many subtypes that can be found in mice,» said Eran Andrechek, co-author and physiology professor whose work focuses on the genetic makeup of cancer.

Like these cell lines, not all human bladder cancers share the same genetic changes.

One week after a breakthrough finding, scientists report they can reprogram human skin cells to behave like embryonic stem cells without a growth factor known to cause cancer

When tested in laboratory samples of leukemia cells and in animals with human - like leukemia, the approach caused cancer cells to die much more quickly than with conventional targeted therapies.

Once formed, many of these experimental tumors spread to the liver, just like human colon cancers often do.

Some experts have traced estrogen - like chemicals to increased rates of human breast cancer, and there is even more evidence that they endanger animals by feminizing the sex organs of male frogs and fish living downstream from sewage treatment plants.

Telomerase is turned off in most human cells, but cancer cells often must reactivate it so that they can keep dividing like crazy.

When cubs are born they get regular medical checkups and medical care, But just like humans in old age, older zoo snow leopards can face health issues like arthritis, failing eyesight, cancer and kidney failure.

I didn't know that when TCGA was proposed in 2005 as a long - term (10 year) effort to identify the common mutations underlying major human cancers, the estimated price tag was something like $ 1.5 billion.

Resulting environmental problems, including smog, haze, and acid rain, contribute to human health problems like asthma, lung cancer, respiratory diseases, and premature death.

The Wnt / beta - catenin pathway regulates self - renewal of cancer stem - like cells in human gastric cancer.

Here, we show that a non-adherent, stem - like, and metastatic CSC - enriched subpopulation could be isolated by exposing human metastatic breast cancer cell lines to cycles of chronic hypoxia followed by reoxygenation.

Aug 8, 2008 Two New Predisposition Genes For Breast, Thyroid And Kidney Cancers Could Lead to More Accurate Diagnosis and Earlier Detection of These Cancers Charis Eng, MD, PhD, Sondra J and Stephen R Hardis Endowed Chair of Cancer Genomic Medicine and Chair, GMI, and her team published in the Aug 8, 2008 issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics that germline mutations in SDHB and SDHD, which play key roles in the mitochondria (the cell's power houses), predispose to Cowden and Cowden - like syndromes.

It's unclear how common this type of tapeworm cancer illness is in humans, but experts like Pritt believe it's likely that there are more cases out there: «H. nana is a very common tapeworm infection in humans, and therefore I would expect there to be other cases like the one described... that were misdiagnosed or went undetected.»

• Detect Zika virus in blood and urine samples within hours and distinguish between its African and American strains • Distinguish between Zika and dengue • Discriminate different types of bacteria, like E. coli • Detect cancer cell mutations • Detect antibiotic resistance genes • Read human genetic information from saliva sample

«In the initial months, we wondered if this was a weird human cancer or some unusual, bizarre emerging protozoa - amoeba - like infection,» he recalled.

Stem cell methodologies like culture conditions, sorting, and how to grow and transfect cells are all tools we can apply now to human brain cancers.

«Basically, this study shows that the genetic makeup of individual human embryonic stem cell lines is unique in the numbers of copies of certain genes that may control traits and things like disease susceptibility,» said Teitell, who also is an associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine and a researcher at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Should collaborations like these prove to be important also in human breast cancer, disrupting key interactions may be a novel treatment strategy for the disease.

«Just like humans, mice can have big variations in how susceptible they are to cancer,» Mao said.

Inhibition of growth, production of insulin - like growth factor - II (IGFII), and expression of IGF - II mRNA of human cancer cell lines by antagonistic analogs of growth hormone - releasing hormone in vitro.

Researchers here are cataloguing what makes cancer cells dangerous down at the level of individual genetic changes, how and why pathogens like malaria evolve to be more (or less) harmful and how humans adapt to those changes.