Sentences with phrase «sugars on human cells»

The new flu, known as H7N9 avian influenza, latches onto sugars that coat bird cells — and it can cling to sugars on human cells too, Yuelong Shu of the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention and colleagues report July 3 in Nature.

The new flu, known as H7N9 avian influenza, latches onto sugars that coat bird cells — and it can cling to sugars on human cells too, Yuelong Shu of the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention and colleagues...

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That gene encodes a sugar - studded protein on the virus's outer surface that helps the virus stick to and invade human cells.

They found that adding a hydrocinnamoyl ester on to the sugar stabilized the ligand and kept it close to the surface of the antigen - presenting cell, thereby enhancing its ability to dock with and stimulate human iNKT cells.

The protein LecA on the surface of the bacteria binds to sugar on special lipid molecules, so - called Gb3 lipids, which are present in the outer membrane of human cells.

«As it was explained to me by Craig Thompson, who has done much of this research and is now president of Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center in New York, the cells of many human cancers come to depend on insulin to provide the fuel (blood sugar) and materials they need to grow and multiply.

«There is no conclusive research on human subjects to prove that sugar makes cancerous cells grow and metastasize.