Sentences with phrase «stem cells kill»
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• A mover and shaker in the National Institutes of Health promotion of creating and killing human embryos in stem cell research is Brigid Hogan, a British researcher at Vanderbilt University.
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It has brought healing, conveniences, communications, and knowledge unimaginable in earlier times, but on the other hand it has brought advanced killing technology, pollution, and embryonic stem cell research.
Since embryonic stem - cell research systematically kills thousands of unborn babies, a practice that only orcs would contemplate in Middle - earth, it is clear that Jackson and Walsh have sided with the Dark Lord.
Cauliflower contains sulforaphane, a sulfur compound that is shown to kill cancer stem cells and slow tumor growth.
Cauliflower is high in sulforaphane, a sulphur compound that has been shown to kill cancer stem cells, thereby slowing tumor growth and support liver detoxification pathways.
Sulforaphane (a sulphur compound) is a key compound in broccoli which has the ability to kill cancer stem cells, which slows tumor growth.
Studies have shown that these cancer - fighting compounds and enzymes found in broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables may actually prevent the relapse of certain cancers by killing cancer stem cells.
In 2010, researchers from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center published a study in the journal Clinical Cancer Research showing that sulforaphane had the ability to kill breast cancer stem cells in mice and in lab cultures, and it also prevented the growth of new tumor cells.
But that gives scientists a secret weapon — if they can harness stem cells» natural ability to «home» toward tumor cells, the stem cells could be manipulated to deliver cancer - killing drugs precisely where they are needed.
Injections of killed stem cells, designed to help the immune system recognise cancers, have been found to protect mice from developing tumours
In human cells and in mice, the virus infected and killed the stem cells that become a glioblastoma, an aggressive brain tumor, but left healthy brain cells alone.
They discovered that the chemicals and radiation used to kill tumor cells damage the stem cell reservoir in the hippocampus and nearly halt the formation of new neurons in both children and adults.
When Gupta's team added salinomycin to cultured human breast - cancer cells, it was about 100 times as effective at killing the cancer stem cells as popular anti-cancer drug, paclitaxel.
They found that cyclophosphamide kills all of the donor's transplanted bone marrow cells except for stem cells containing high levels of an enzyme called aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH).
The negative attention combined with the political uncertainty around stem - cell funding killed the deal, says Greg Bonfiglio, who was with Anthem Venture Partners of Santa Monica, California, at the time, and would have been the lead investor on that round.
The virus does this because, unlike most microbes, Zika can pass from blood into the brain, where it infects and kills stem cells, having severe effects on developing brains.
«Herpes - loaded stem cells used to kill brain tumors.»
But, for the new, transplanted stem cells to do their work, the faulty stem cells must first be «evicted» or killed.
He proved it in 2003 by first X-raying mice to kill off all the stem cells in their bone marrow, then repopulating the bone with stem cells tagged with a fluorescent marker.
«These stem cells are hardy and difficult to kill.
According to Semenza, «Chemotherapy may kill more than 99 percent of the cancer cells in a tumor but fail to kill a small population of cancer stem cells that are responsible for subsequent cancer relapse and metastasis.»
Encapsulated toxin - producing stem cells (in blue) help kill brain tumor cells in the tumor resection cavity (in green).
Compounds from grapes may kill colon cancer stem cells both in a petri dish and in mice, according to a team of researchers.
«Now, we have toxin - resistant stem cells that can make and release cancer - killing drugs.»
A team led by neuroscientist Khalid Shah, MS, PhD, who recently demonstrated the value of stem cells loaded with cancer - killing herpes viruses, now has a way to genetically engineer stem cells so that they can produce and secrete tumor - killing toxins.
«A few years ago we recognized that stem cells could be used to continuously deliver these therapeutic toxins to tumors in the brain, but first we needed to genetically engineer stem cells that could resist being killed themselves by the toxins,» he said.
They found that ONC201 alters the gene expression of cancer stem cell markers and signaling pathways prior to killing the tumor cells, providing pharmacodynamic biomarkers of response.
Researchers have been seeking a way to improve the body's ability to combat the virus by engineering blood - forming stem cells to specifically target and kill HIV - infected cells for the life of the individual.
Another view is that tumors can become resistant to therapy by a process called cell fate decision, by which some tumor cells are killed by therapy and others become cancer stem cells.
The doctors» plan was to kill off Brown's cancer - producing bone marrow cells with intensive chemotherapy and replace them with stem cells from the bone marrow of a healthy donor.
«The focus of chemotherapy and existing standard - of - care is on killing cancer cells but instead we took a completely different approach which changes the environment the cancer cells live in,» said Mick Bhatia, director and senior scientist with the McMaster Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute, who led the group that performed the study.
Hütter speculates that Brown was helped to a total cure by what is known as the host - versus - graft reaction: New stem cells and all their progeny see the old immune cells as «other» and kill them off.
Upon a strong injury that kills the active cells, these reserve stem cells «wake up» to regenerate the tissue.
Unless you go in and kill all the stem cells that make CCR5, there will always be cells that the virus can grow in.
By inhibiting the COX - 2 enzyme, and consequently inhibiting interleukin - 17A, celecoxib could indirectly prevent macrophages from killing the injected stem cells and instead allow them to heal the wound.
The harsh inflammation in chronic wounds kills many of the injected cells, and this is one of the reasons why, so far, stem cells have not worked as a treatment for chronic wounds.
The researchers, who are based at the Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research, located at the CSIR - Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, India, hope that the technique can enhance regenerative therapy for conditions like chronic wounds, where harsh inflammation in the wound can kill the cells used in regenerative stem cell treatments.
The antibiotic, Doxycycline, followed by doses of ascorbic acid (Vitamin C), were surprisingly effective in killing the cancer stem cells under laboratory conditions, according to the research published in the journal Oncotarget.
Because the stem cells generate the brain cancer cells, killing off the stem cells might prevent tumors from recurring.
VIRUS VICTORY Zika virus (green) infects and kills stem cells (red) in human glioblastoma tissue, without infecting healthy brain cells.
The investigational treatment was combined with chemotherapy and an autologous stem cell transplant — a new strategy designed to target and kill the cells that give rise to myeloma cells.
Bush defended his 2001 partial ban on stem cell research, maintaining the science is immoral because it means killing embryos that have a potential for life.
A process known to kill adult nerve cells also halts stem cell growth, causing neurodegeneration
The innate system — via stem cells in the bone marrow — mobilizes macrophages, which are a type of white blood cell that swallows and kills invading bacteria like Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) that causes TB.
In collaboration with co-senior authors Diamond and Milan G. Chheda, MD, of Washington University School of Medicine, and Jeremy N. Rich, MD, of UC San Diego, Zhu tested whether the virus could kill stem cells in glioblastomas removed from patients at diagnosis.
The standard treatment kills the bulk of the tumor cells but often leaves the stem cells intact to regenerate the tumor.
«Zika virus kills brain cancer stem cells: Virus potentially could be used to treat deadly disease.»
Brain cancer stem cells (left) are killed by Zika virus infection (image at right shows cells after Zika treatment).
Both strains spread through the tumors, infecting and killing the cancer stem cells while largely avoiding other tumor cells.
A stem cell - based method created by University of California, Irvine scientists can selectively target and kill cancerous tissue while preventing some of the toxic side effects of chemotherapy by treating the disease in a more localized way.