Sentences with phrase «shrink tumors in mice»

Scientists exploit gene therapy to shrink tumors in mice with an aggressive form of breast cancer.

But a new study reports that these tiny flecks of carbon can shrink tumors in mice by delivering chemotherapy drugs to cancer cells.

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Mouse tumors injected directly with the reprogrammed stem cells shrank 20 - to 50-fold in 24 — 28 days compared with nontreated mice.

Now, scientists have modified Salmonella bacteria to trigger a particularly powerful immune response against human cancer cells implanted in mice, shrinking the tumors and — for the first time — preventing them from metastasizing.

Increasing expression of a chemical cytokine called LIGHT in mice with colon cancer activated the immune system's natural cancer - killing T - cells and caused primary tumors and metastatic tumors in the liver to shrink.

In the group that received the highest dose of nanotubes followed by a 30 - second laser treatment, the tumors shrank and completely disappeared in 80 percent of the micIn the group that received the highest dose of nanotubes followed by a 30 - second laser treatment, the tumors shrank and completely disappeared in 80 percent of the micin 80 percent of the mice.

The treatment killed cancerous cells in the mice, shrunk their tumors and left them with fewer side effects.

In any case, she and Yang have found that a week of gene shots three to five times daily not only shrinks the tumors but lengthens the lives of the mice.

The CRISPR - Cas9 genome editing system could help fight cancer, and now, researchers have used the tool to target what they call cancer's command center, in a treatment that's been shown in mice to shrink aggressive tumors and increase survival rates, without harming healthy cells.

St. Louis researchers have used a strain of the Zika virus to shrink highly lethal brain tumors in mice.

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have discovered a way to target the immune system to shrink or eliminate tumors in mice without causing autoimmune problems.

The researchers have identified a drug that, in some mice, was able to completely shrink tumors away.