Sentences with phrase «making cells killed»

But Denise Faustman seems to be right about a strategy to regrow insulin - making cells killed off in diabetes

Not exact matches

In May 2007 Newsweek Healthcarried an article stating that heart cells can remain alive for several hours even without oxygen, and that it is the sudden resumption of the oxygen supply, as attempts are made to resuscitate the individual in hospital, that causes apoptosis, killing the cells and causing death.

Theres also a competing theory that getting concussions actually makes you smarter since it kills off the weaker brain cells first - making your brain more operate effecent as a whole.

«If you kill the cells that make this drainage work, it's going to clog, and pressure inside the eye will increase,» said Lieberman, who is an associate professor in Georgia Tech's School of Chemistry and Biochemistry.

Jerrold Olefsky and colleagues at the University of California, San Diego, killed the bone marrow cells in mice that make immune cells called macrophages.

One class, which includes amoxicillin, kill bacteria by preventing them from making cell walls.

After the modified T cells make many copies of themselves in the lab, they're unleashed in the patient's bloodstream to find and kill cancer cells.

These modifications contribute to a tumor's ability to grow indefinitely, as well as making tumor cells drug resistant and capable of surviving treatments intended to kill them.

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.

«Pancreatic cancer is extremely hard to treat by chemotherapy, so this finding is important because vitamin A targets the non-cancerous tissue and makes the existing chemotherapy more effective, killing the cancer cells and shrinking tumours.

This approach has immense promise, for instance, it is being used to alter immune cells to make them better at killing cancers.

A single genetic mutation made the Zika virus far more dangerous by enhancing its ability to kill nerve cells in developing brains, a new study suggests.

Silane gas has killed and injured workers at cell - making plants.

Synthetic biocircuits made of DNA and encoded proteins could be inserted to detect and repair (or kill) cells with mutations known to cause cancer or aging.

Using tumor samples from a patient, they do lab tests to determine which substances can first make the different types of cancer cells uniform and then effectively kill them.

This made it possible for their immune systems to produce sufficient amounts of CD8 T cells that were primed to attack and kill HIV - infected cells.

Glia making the APOE4 version of the protein often killed the nerve cells (bottom right).

But infected cells can reach such high numbers that the progression to cancer is not terminated by the many mutations that kill the cells or make them nonfunctional.

People with Parkinson's disease experience muscle tremors and rigidity because something kills off the brain cells that normally make the movement - coordinating chemical dopamine.

By cutting gelsolin down to a specific fragment and putting it into chemo - resistant cancer cells, the international team discovered they could make these cells susceptible to the cancer - killing effects of cisplatin.

«Our test should make it possible to find drug combinations that kill ALL the cancerous cells in a tumor,» Skala said.

Further experiments suggested that the production of high levels of cell wall - associated GAG makes A. fumigatus more resistant than A. nidulans to neutrophil killing by neutrophil extracellular traps, or NETs (NETs are are networks of extracellular fibers, composed of DNA and proteins secreted by immune cells called neutrophils, that bind and trap various pathogens).

«The next step is to test tandem therapy in cell studies, because it makes sense to combine an mTOR inhibitor with an agent that does kill cancer cells,» Dr. Morita said.

Although it makes sense that disrupting such a critical pathway could kill cells, researchers still have to show that this effect is what makes LF so toxic.

They do their dirty work by infiltrating bacteria, including disease - causing germs, and destroying them from within: After latching onto bacteria, the phages bore inside and hijack the bacteria's genetic machinery, turning them into phage factories that eventually make so many copies that the cells burst, killing off the host.

They are primarily being used to package and deliver the current generation of cancer cell killing drugs and progress is being made in that effort.

Just lowering it, not even killing it off, was enough to make these cells less metastatic.

They seem most lifelike only when they invade and co-opt the machinery of living cells in order to make more of themselves, often killing their hosts in the process.

«Now, we have toxin - resistant stem cells that can make and release cancer - killing drugs.»

Dopamine, the neurotransmitter that helps keep body movements fluid, can kick off a toxic chain reaction that ultimately kills the nerve cells that make it, a new study suggests.

Although other tumor suppressors exist, what makes Par - 4 so special is that it is not mutated as frequently as other known suppressors, and it's «selective» in its actions in that Par - 4 will only kill cancer cells and not normal cells.

Using these alternative starting materials, they have made dozens of natural polyphenols, including vaticanol C, which is known to kill cancer cells (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature10197).

Instead of killing HIV, as it would do with other viruses, the CD4 cell makes more copies of HIV, which then leave to invade other CD4 cells, ad infinitum, until an irreversible, lethal cascade has been unleashed.

Unless you go in and kill all the stem cells that make CCR5, there will always be cells that the virus can grow in.

Several previous studies have explored whether drugs can shock cells that are infected with latent HIV to make new viruses, setting them up for the kill by the natural immune response.

«We know how big the wall has to be to kill the cancer cells, but the question is how big do we make the bricks?

These then make holes in the infected cell to inject toxic substances that kill both the cell and the pathogen.

Those plaques are dense deposits of protein and other cell material that attach themselves to and eventually kill neurons responsible for memory and decision making.

Shi and colleagues don't yet know why tweaking the protein makes the virus kill brain cells more readily.

The virus picked up a mutation in 2013 that makes it more aggressive at killing brain cells.

In contrast, Disney noted, a typical cancer therapeutic targets and kills cells indiscriminately, often leading to side effects that can make these drugs difficult for patients to tolerate.

«We thought we could adapt this technology that's really good at killing all B cells in the body to target specifically the B cells that make antibodies that cause autoimmune disease,» said Milone.

They used the gene - editing CRISPR / Cas9 technique to sift the genomes of melanoma cells for changes that made tumors resistant to being killed by immune T cells, which are the main actors in the immune system response against infections and cancer cells.

When confronted with invading bacteria, cells within the multicellular slug stage of the social amoeba (Dictyostelium discoideum) immediately seek to kill them, casting extracellular traps made of DNA nets studded with antimicrobial granules.

This 0157: H7 makes the headlines, mainly because it's a problem in the United States, but in the other parts of the world there are strains of E. coli that still make children very sick, and they kill millions of children every year, and they have lots of different ways of invading our cells and manipulating them.

The phages infiltrate bacterial cells, where they commandeer the host machinery to make thousands of new phages; then they escape through the bacterial cell wall — killing the host — and spread to infect their next victims.

We are trying to figure out the molecular pathways by which the cells make the decisions and decide if they need to kill themselves.

Scientists studying cancer have long grappled with how to make these T cells kill tumor cells.

It can make a cell glow as a guide to surgeons; heat the cell to kill it; and produce reactive oxygen species that can also kill it.

If a previous virus invades again, the T cells can quickly kill infected cells and make chemical signals, called cytokines, to call in other immune cells for reinforcement.