Sentences with phrase «living tumour cells»

When they injected the soil bacterium Clostridium [ck] novyi into the bloodstream of mice with tumours, it spread throughout the necrotic region, consuming living tumour cells as well as dead tissue.

This bank of living tumour cells allowed the team to study not only the genetics of the cells, but also how genetic mutations in the mitochondria — which drive energy production in the cell — caused changes in the cell's metabolism.

This involves crushing live tumour cells and measuring the metabolites they contain using a mass spectrometer.

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Even soil - living or flesh - eating bacteria, engineered viruses, weed extracts, microwaves, chemicals from Antarctic sea squirts and the immune cells of siblings have been recruited to destroy tumours.

We are investigating how tumour cells can disseminate from the primary tumour and remain alive but clinically undetectable for many years, and how they start expanding into life threatening cancers in some patients.