Sentences with phrase «specific types of cancer cells»

Other researchers have already loaded hollow origami structures with drugs to target specific types of cancer cells, created DNA «robots» that walk across surfaces, and mimicked the shape of viruses.

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The treatment is a type of so - called CAR T - cell therapy — taking a patient's own immune cells, called T cells, genetically manipulating them to attack specific proteins on cancer, and infusing them back into the patient.

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.

The most common type of skin lymphoma is caused by the fact that specific immune cells — CD4 - T - lymphocyttes — turn into cancer cells.

Researchers at Penn State have combined the two approaches by taking biodegradable polymer nanoparticles encapsulated with cancer - fighting drugs and incorporating them into immune cells to create a smart, targeted system to attack cancers of specific types.

Most cancer vaccines developed to date have been designed to recognize and attack a specific known molecule — such as a cell - surface receptor — that is likely to be found on cancerous cells in any patient with that type of tumor.

Human chondrosarcoma HCS - 2 / 8 cells, which are a type of benign bone cancer cells, can be used to investigate how optimization of culture conditions could improve the synthesis of cartilage - specific molecules.»

In earlier studies involving animal models and human cancer cell lines, researchers found that breast cancer spreads when three specific cells are in direct contact: an endothelial cell (a type of cell that lines the blood vessels), a perivascular macrophage (a type of immune cell found near blood vessels), and a tumor cell that produces high levels of Mena, a protein that enhances a cancer cell's ability to spread.

Immune cells called T cells (shown) are engineered to seek and destroy specific types of cancer.

They induce CD4 + helper T cell responses, which in turn activate cytotoxic T cells and direct them to recognize and fight specific types of cancer.

Different types of tumors show a preference for specific organs and tissues; circulating breast cancer cells, for example, are likely to take root in bones, lungs, and the brain.

Each well holds a specific antibody that will bind selectively to one type of cancer cell type, based on genetic markers on its surface.

Many of these «dependencies,» the researchers report in the journal Cell, are specific to certain cancer types.

«Since MCR works by targeting specific DNA sequences, in cases where diseased cells have altered DNA as in HIV - infected individuals or some types of cancer, MCR - based methods should be able to distinguish diseased from healthy cells and then be used to selectively either destroy or modify the diseased cells.»

His laboratory investigates how cell type specific differences in protein synthesis and homeostasis promote tissue regeneration and suppress the development of cancer.

On the heels of identifying the specific type of cell that gives rise to retinoblastoma, RPB - funded researchers at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital are solving a long - standing mystery about how the eyes of vertebrates develop and how a rare pediatric eye cancer progresses.

Cell type specific chromosome territory organization in the interphase nucleus of normal and cancer cells.

T cell exclusion, which also occurs in several types of human adenocarcinomas, causes antagonists of T cell checkpoints to be ineffective, despite the presence of cancer - specific CD8 + T cells.

Non-Hodgkin lymphoma — sometimes also called non-Hodgkin's lymphoma or just NHL — covers a number of different cancers that start in a specific type of white blood cells called lymphocytes.

Lauric Acid inhibited the viability of both cancer cell types without altering the growth of MCF - 10A normal breast epithelial cells, thus suggesting its specific potential to trigger antiproliferative effects in malignant cells.

When lymphocytes and plasma cells are the predominant cell types the most likely underlying causes are sensitivities to dietary components (wheat gluten is one example), parasites, bacterial toxins, cancers, heritable tendencies (occurs in Basenjis and wheaten terriers), and again a big group of dogs where a specific underlying cause isn't identifiable, or the idiopathic cases.

On Houston's Clear Thinkers, Tom Kirkendall ponders the view of cancer as tenaciously persistent and able to regenerate after apparently disappearing — driven by a specific cell type lurking within the cancer that is capable of dormancy, growth and infinite regeneration — a cancer «stem cell» in The Cancer Sleepecancer as tenaciously persistent and able to regenerate after apparently disappearing — driven by a specific cell type lurking within the cancer that is capable of dormancy, growth and infinite regeneration — a cancer «stem cell» in The Cancer Sleeper cell type lurking within the cancer that is capable of dormancy, growth and infinite regeneration — a cancer «stem cell» in The Cancer Sleepecancer that is capable of dormancy, growth and infinite regeneration — a cancer «stem cell» in The Cancer Sleepecancer «stem cell» in The Cancer Sleeper cell» in The Cancer SleepeCancer Sleeper CellCell