Sentences with phrase «select number of cells»

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Whether investigating fat cells, immunotherapy or use of the CRISPR - Cas 9 gene - editing tool, which a federal panel recently approved for a select number of patients suffering from three types of cancers, including multiple myeloma, approaches beyond attacking cancer cells are needed in the fight against many cancers.

Gerton hypothesized that cancer cells, which are highly proliferative and might need more than the usual amount of ribosomes, would select for expansion of copy number.

Reasoning that the selected T cells, to be effective, would have to make up the bulk of cells in each patient's immune system, the team administered chemotherapy to the patients to temporarily wipe out substantial numbers of existing immune cells.

This BaF3 phe116 almost completely fails to proliferate and activate STATs in response to IL - 9.15 However, upon prolonged culture with IL - 9, a small number of cells manage to survive and even proliferate, allowing an IL -9-dependent cell line (BaF3 phe116 / 9) to be selected.14 In contrast to parental BaF3 phe116 cells, those IL -9-selected cells could progress to autonomous cells (BaF3 Aut) after a second selection step in the absence of cytokine.

«When we selected an application, we knew we needed a tiny number of cells and they just needed to do what they were doing in the petri dish,» Lanza says.

Each circle in the histogram represents a single randomly selected field (total number of cells counted > 500 for each group).

Prior research had developed a number of new compounds making use of a novel drug discovery paradigm which begins with natural products extracted from plants; it then entails selecting synthetic derivatives which demonstrate efficacy in multiple assays testing protection against different factors of the nerve cell damage and death which take place in brain injuries and in age - associated neurodegenerative conditions.

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