Sentences with phrase «quickly than normal cells»
They believe the mutated gene causes cancer by triggering cytoskeleton malfunction, which allows the cancer cells to move more quickly than normal cells, essentially invading the surrounding healthy tissue.
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Because they multiply quickly and spread throughout the body, cancer cells require more energy than normal cells.
They found — as they did in the 2016 study — that when these cells expressed SOD1 mutants that predominantly form trimers, the cells died much more quickly than control cells containing normal SOD1.
Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease that causes skin cells to go through the life cycle more quickly than normal.
Any health condition is made worse if the metabolic rate is slower than normal, because cells can't heal and repair themselves as quickly.
Scaly silver patches are formed when skin cells replicate quickly than normal rate.