«Each cell in the kidney seems to have a unique non-redundant function, and dysfunction of
specific cell types present with specific symptoms in people.
Not exact matches
It is emerging that the chemical structure of RNA molecules is extensively modified by
specific enzymes normally
present in our
cells, which are commonly found to be altered in severe medical syndromes and various
types of cancers.
Most notably, the studies are based on transient transfection of wild -
type and mutant gene constructs into cultured
cells or into zebrafish embryos and are unlikely to reproduce the
specific mutant gene dose that is
present in heterozygous mutant
cells in FOP patients.
They looked for correlations between
specific mutations in the tumor
cells and the composition of the tumor microbiome — the
types of bacteria
present in the tumor's immediate environment and their relative abundance — and found relationships between the two.