Sentences with phrase «modify cells in the immune system»

It is a way to modify cells in the immune system.

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In this approach, immune cells are removed from a patient, genetically modified or treated with chemicals to enhance their activity, and then re-introduced into the patient with the goal of improving the immune system's anti-cancer response.

Drew Pardoll, Glenn Dranoff, Elizabeth Jaffee, Hyam Levitsky, and colleagues conduct preclinical studies showing that a vaccine composed of tumor cells irradiated and genetically modified to produce immune system growth factor GM - CSF (granulocyte - macrophage colony - stimulating factor)-- which would become known as the therapeutic cancer vaccine GVAX — could induce potent, specific, and long - lasting anti-tumor immunity in multiple mouse tumor models.

Our chemically modified siRNA molecules, designed to retain stability in the bloodstream without stimulating the immune system, are able to target certain kidney cells without the need for a delivery system when given intravenously.

In this approach, T cells are removed from a patient, genetically modified or treated with chemicals to enhance their activity, and then re-introduced into the patient with the goal of improving the T cell immune system's anti-cancer response.

In this approach, T cells are removed from a patient, genetically modified or treated with chemicals to enhance their activity, and then re-introduced into the patient with the goal of improving the immune system's anti-cancer response.

In this approach, T cells are removed from a patient, genetically modified or treated with chemicals to enhance their activity or numbers, and then re-introduced into the patient with the goal of improving the immune system's anti-cancer response.

They then injected the edited human cells into seven mice with compromised immune systems to see if the modified cells would take hold — a step that would be necessary if the same procedure were to be done in humans.

The Joslin researchers then transplanted these modified human diabetic cells into wounds in mice models of diabetes that also had suppressed immune systems so that they didn't reject human cells.

Special Areas of Interest: Osteosarcoma, plasma cell tumors, lymphoma, mast cell tumors, and investigating ways in which the immune system can be modified to better recognize and eliminate cancer cells.