Sentences with phrase «rejected by the immune system»

When researchers injected fresh breast cancer cells in the side opposite the original tumor site, the disease didn't recur in any of the mice, as the cancer was rejected by the immune system's memory.

Injections of the missing factors are expensive and are sometimes rejected by the immune system.

On the other hand, giving the Fukushima workers their own stem cells should work better than donor cells because the patients» own cells won't be rejected by the immune system.

Transplanted embryonic stem cells are ethically cleaner, but they have a genetic makeup different from the patient's own, so they could be violently rejected by the immune system.

New research in monkeys refutes these findings, suggesting that in primates like us, such cells will not be rejected by the immune system.

Such materials are biologically inert, so they should not be rejected by the immune system.

Not exact matches

«But at some point we'll be able fabricate a biodevice from a patient's own cells that will duplicate the most important functions of a kidney and that won't be rejected by the patient's immune system.»

Soon after, physicians approached Church about using CRISPR to alter the genomes of pigs so their organs would not be rejected by the human immune system.

To survive in utero, the fetus must resist an onslaught by the mother's immune system that, most researchers agree, recognizes the father's share of the embryo as foreign and sometimes rejects it.

Although such harvested cells could be cultured as say, liver cells for treating hepatitis or dopamine - producing cells for Parkinson's, the resulting transplants would likely be rejected by patients» immune systems.

For many scientists, the clinical promise of stem cells has been dampened by very real concerns that the immune system will reject the transplanted cells before they could render any long - term benefit.

The researchers also looked at whether the engineered vocal cord tissue would be rejected or accepted by mice that had been engineered to have humanlike immune systems.

Because none of the donor's soft tissue remains, the new organ won't be recognised as foreign and rejected by the recipient's immune system.

Studies in rodents have suggested that iPSC - derived cells used for transplantation may be rejected by the body's immune system.

The teratomas that did grow were soon attacked by the recipient's immune system and were rejected, the team reports online today in Nature.

Cancer cells from a different species can be easily recognized by the immune system and rejected.

Lastly, the placenta secretes immune response regulators to give the fetus immune protection against the mother (so that the fetus is not rejected by the mother's immune system, as a tissue graft or organ transplant would be)(Rossant and Cross, 2001; Gilbert, 2003).

«Having a very efficient and practical way of generating patient - specific stem cells, which unlike human embryonic stem cells, wouldn't be rejected by the patient's immune system after transplantation brings us a step closer to the clinical application of stem cell therapy,» says Belmonte, PhD., a professor in the Gene Expression Laboratory and director of the Center of Regenerative Medicine in Barcelona, Spain.

Donor cells can be rejected if they are perceived as foreign by a recipient's immune system, says Berglund.