Sentences with phrase «particular abnormal cell»

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Within a single tumor exists such an astonishingly varied population of cells, each with its own combination of normal and abnormal genes, that at least some cells nearly always have a way to survive any particular attack.

A study led by researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center — Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC — James) has identified an abnormal metabolic pathway that drives cancer - cell growth in a particular glioblastoma subtype.

Of particular interest are the emerging techniques for genomics and proteomics, which allow profiles of gene expression and protein synthesis to be produced and comparisons to be made between normal and abnormal cells, as well as between cells before and after exposure to medicines or toxic chemicals.

This particular liver cancer arises from a mutation that produces an abnormal form of the enzyme that is the topic of this current work, protein kinase A, and alters the enzyme's role in cell signaling.

Luckily, different cell types tend to have different things on their surfaces, which play particular parts in their specialized roles in the tissue, so it is a matter of identifying and targeting cell - surface markers that are specific to these abnormal cell types.

«We need a range of models to learn about the connections among genes, molecules, cells, synapses and circuits in normal and abnormal cognition and behavior, and to help us understand the risks of particular patients,» says the Broad Institute's Steven Hyman.