It is alive because it has the ability to
reproduce dying cells.
Not exact matches
Once deprived of Abl, the tumor
cells stop
reproducing and
die.
One of them was used to
reproduce acquired aplastic anemia: due to various types of damage, some of the stem
cells die, and those that remain need to divide more frequently in order to maintain the production of blood
cells; as a result of so many divisions, the telomeres shorten and the disease appears.
In her experiments, Lopatkin put bacterial
cells under a sort of suspended animation where they could neither
die nor
reproduce but they could still swap genes.
Five years ago, the group reported that when they infected human tonsil
cells with HIV in culture, 95 percent of the CD4 + T
cells that
died did so before the virus had a chance to
reproduce within them.
One of them was used to
reproduce acquired aplastic anaemia: due to various types of damage, some of the stem
cells die, and those that remain need to divide more frequently in order to maintain the production of blood
cells; as a result of so many divisions, the telomeres shorten and the disease appears.
If you are sensitive to this acid, it causes your skin
cells to rapidly
reproduce and rise to the top of your scalp to
die off in an effort to rid itself of the fungus.