Sentences with phrase «means death of the cells»

Specifically, this study looked at the HL - 60 cells and found that hibiscus tea could cause cancer cell apoptosis, which means death of the cells.

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They then argue that «By creating a financial incentive for embryonic stem cell research — an incentive that by NIH's own admission involves investments of «hundreds of millions of dollars» — and by specifying the precise means by which embryos must be destroyed in order to qualify for federal funding, the NIH necessarily and knowingly subjects embryos to a substantial risk of injury or death.»

Glk1 is a transcription factor, meaning it binds to specific regions of DNA and activates genes involved in cell death and other plant immune responses.

Although HIV researchers knew that intracellular transmission of the virus is a 100 - to 1,000 - times more - efficient means of infection than exposure to free particles called virions, Greene and his colleagues have now shown that cell - to - cell transmission is also more likely to lead to CD4 + T cell death.

Remarkably, blood CD4 T cells are resistant to this death pathway, in part because the cells are in a deeper state of rest, meaning the virus is unable to infect them completely, which prevents the onset of the chain of events that leads to pyroptosis.

Bratton Lab advances understanding of how chemotherapies kill cells (11/24/16) Apoptosis, or programmed cell death, is a means cells use to cause their own death.

Swanton's new lab set out to identify specific genes that, when inhibited, result in the death of tumor cells that displayed aneuploidy, meaning they had more or less than the normal set of 46 chromosomes.

Telomere length is arguably the best marker of biological age, and shorter mean telomere length, usually measured in your white blood cells, is associated with increased risk of heart disease, obesity, cancer, stroke, dementia, and premature death (2).