Sentences with phrase «on healthy cell»

With IVF, doctors rely on healthy cell divisions to rate embryo quality, so they know which embryo to transfer.

And the regular caffeine in these drinks would start to have negative effects on healthy cells, too, at the levels necessary to kill cancerous ones.

Cancer cells rely on the healthy cells that surround them for sustenance.

The Discher lab has expertise with mimicking these protective mechanisms on healthy cells, but now they are targeting the proteins on macrophages that respond to those signals.

Now researchers have found a way to kill tumor cells in test tubes without inflicting any collateral damage on healthy cells.

Curcumin's anticancer effect is attributed to its ability to induce apoptosis in cancer cells without cytotoxic effects on healthy cells.

In the videos reviewing the research on how the blood of people eating a plant based diet is so hostile to cancer cells Dr. Greger almost always shows what the impact on healthy cells when the blood is dripped on them and that is always nothing.

These types of phytonutrients act like antioxidants in your system and neutralize damaging free radicals that feed on healthy cells throughout your body.

A study published in Nature suggests that a type of white blood cell called Th17 play a critical role in autoimmunity (immune attack on healthy cells).

And in a fascinating finding of several studies, the impact of ITCs on healthy cells has been shown to be different than the impact of ITCs on cancerous cells.

Unfortunately when they «steal» those electrons from other molecules, they initiate chain reactions that inflict damage on healthy cells and tissue.

Laser therapy causes no adverse effects on healthy cells.

Not exact matches

Immunotherapy is praised by researchers because it is targeted, focusing on cancerous cells rather than healthy tissue, as well as potentially durable.

We do this by growing healthy marine - animal cells on their own, instead of live fish.

Since PSMA's limited on normal cells, the therapy should hammer away at tumors while letting healthy tissues do their job.

Without that context, there is the danger that the family and its like will become so focused on itself, so inward - looking, that it becomes a cell of unhealthy life, not of healthy and developing life.

Taking care of our cells on the insides results in healthier, more hydrated and younger looking skin.

Every cell of your child's body relies on water to function properly, so staying hydrated is crucial for staying healthy during the germy winter months.

People who include dishes like carrot soup in their diets on a regular basis also enjoy reduced cholesterol levels, healthy teeth, and gums, wrinkle prevention, the slowing down of aging of the cells in your body, as well as a clean colon.

The cells on your body regularly shed to reveal new, healthier skin underneath.

Psoriasis (Ps) and psoriatic (so - rye - AT - ick) arthritis (PsA) are conditions of the immune system that affect the normal production of healthy skin cells on the body.

They want to know how on earth this young and healthy black woman, who was pulled over by police for a minor traffic violation in Texas on July 10th, ended up dead in a Waller County cell from asphyxiation three days later.

On Thursday, the United Nations» member states will consider two resolutions: One resolution would ban all human cloning methods, including efforts to use cloned embryonic stem cells to try and generate healthy tissues, or to treat degenerative diseases such as Parkinson's.

As might be expected of an autoimmune disease, where the immune system turns on healthy tissue, all the genes play a role in controlling the growth and multiplication of cells in the immune system.

These are receptors on immune cells, which control for example effector T - cells by dampening their activation if damage to healthy cells is imminent.

In a study published in the journal Science, an international collaboration of investigators from Dana - Farber, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children's Hospital, and the University of Strasbourg uncovered a mechanism that allows key immune system cells to keep a steady rein on their more belligerent brother cells, thereby protecting normal, healthy tissue from assault.

The gene encodes a protein called PD - 1 that normally acts as a check on the cell's capacity to launch an immune response, to prevent it from attacking healthy cells.

The researchers then took naïve immune cells — which transform into different types based on the invaders they encounter — from the blood of healthy individuals and exposed them to bacteria in the guts of MS patients.

BYE BYE BUDS Mice that became obese on a high - fat diet (right) lost a quarter of their taste buds (stained red) and also had fewer progenitor cells (stained green)-- which give rise to new taste buds — than mice of a healthy weight on a regular diet (left).

In principle, an attack by such T - cells on tumors should be particularly powerful as well as highly tumor - specific and thus sparing of healthy cells.

Six of the eight stem cell recipients became pregnant, and went on to deliver healthy baby mice.

The Loyola study focused on how these misfolded protein clumps invade a healthy brain cell.

Another key finding of the research was that the impact of vitamin D on inflammatory disease can not be predicted using cells from healthy individuals or even from the blood of patients with inflammation as cells from the disease tissue are very different.

Pfizer's Selzentry (generic name, maraviroc), which went on sale in the United States in September, binds with host cell receptors to prevent the virus from attaching to and entering healthy host cells.

Potentially explaining why even healthy brains don't function well with age, Salk researchers have discovered that genes that are switched on early in brain development to sever connections between neurons as the brain fine - tunes, are again activated in aging neuronal support cells called astrocytes.

The good news about the complex interconnectivity is that the scientists also were able to find a potential future point of intervention: When they gave a drug that increased AMPA receptor expression on the cell surface, the spines assumed a more healthy, mature state.

To deliver the healthy gene, the team inserted it into an engineered virus called adeno - associated virus 1, or AAV1, together with a promoter — a genetic sequence that turns the gene on only in certain sensory cells of the inner ear known as hair cells.

A healthy gut depends on a balance of inflammatory and tolerant T cells, which make up part of the adaptive immune system.

Y. pestis was initially passed from person to person — say, when an infected individual coughed on a healthy person — and most likely caused lung infections known as pneumonic plague or blood infections called septicemic plague, the researchers report October 22 in Cell.

But he also has a team working on the model that occurred to him on the beach: Harvest and grow some healthy cells from a patient's damaged kidneys.

Switching Apc on again made the frenzied cells morph back into healthy gut tissue, which contains intestinal cells (below, green) and clusters of stem cells (below

In a bid to progress beyond the shotgun approach to fighting cancer — blasting malignant cells with toxic chemicals or radiation, which kills surrounding healthy cells in the process — researchers at the Harvard - MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) are using nanotechnology to develop seek - and - destroy models to zero in on and dismantle tumors without damaging nearby normal tissue.

In essence, he says, weak T regs can mature into killer T cells that weed out other immune cells mounting attacks on healthy tissues.

For the CRISPR trial, a UPenn - led team wants to remove T cells from patients and use a harmless virus to give the cells a receptor for NY - ESO - 1, a protein that is often present on certain tumors but not on most healthy cells.

According to this study, it's this NS2 protein and its effect on epithelial - cell shedding that makes RSV by far the most common cause of bronchiolitis in otherwise healthy young children.

The researchers are developing a potential new immunotherapy strategy for melanoma based on their insights into Autoimmune Polyendocrinopathy Type 1, a rare, inherited disorder in which T - cells attack healthy cells and tissues.

«This new pathway will allow us to focus therapies on preserving healthy mitochondria within the beta cell to treat or prevent both type 1 and type 2 diabetes.»

Klebsiella pneumoniae is usually a normal resident in the mouth of healthy individuals, but as demonstrated in an experiment on specific pathogen - free mice treated and untreated with the antibiotic ampicillin, they can colonize in the gut and activate TH1 cells when antibiotics disturb the gut microbial balance and weaken tolerance for the colonization of oral bacteria reaching the intestine.

HSCT is effectively used today as a form of «replacement» therapy for patients with hard - to - treat blood cancers, providing healthy cells from either the patient (autologous transplantation) or from a donor (allogeneic transplantation) to better equip patients to fight the disease on their own.

It also focuses more narrowly on cancer cells, so that far fewer healthy cells are killed,» she says.