Sentences with phrase «than the cell type»

The treatment of cervical cancer depends more on the severity of the disease (the stage) than the cell type.

Not exact matches

The squeeze mechanism Sharei and his colleagues came up with could also be more effective than other existing ways of getting materials into cells, he says, because it works for more types of cells and materials, and presents fewer risks.

In the clearest possible case, the ANT - OAR cell would differ from a zygote on all of the parameters noted above: The ANT - OAR cell would have a pattern of gene expression that is clearly distinct from a zygote; it would generate a homogeneous population of cells rather than multiple cell types; it would undergo simple cleavage divisions and not produce any multicellular structures.

The researchers found that HSF1's boosting of TTR production occurred in neuronal - type cells, rather than in liver cells where most TTR is produced.

It had to be supposed that these activities were brought together to result in some relatively unified type of action, e.g., to form a definitive nerve cell, rather than a definite muscle cell.

The mind, while not being an ontologically different type of individual than the cells, is numerically distinct from them, and can thus be thought to interact with them.

Monica knew from the start that he wanted to use a different type of foam than the black, open - celled polyurethane that is standard among competitor models.

However, there may be other conditions that cause an exaggeration of this type of jaundice, such as a more rapid than normal breakdown of red blood cells.

However, there may be other conditions which cause an exaggeration of this type of jaundice, such as a more rapid than normal breakdown of red blood cells.

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A new type of human stem cell, never seen in nature, should be better at making replacement organs than existing stem cells

That type of fine - grained control is also revealing that at least some tumors may begin releasing cells sooner than scientists had realized.

«Off - the - shelf» insulin - producing cells could be a simpler and potentially safer way to treat type 1 diabetes than using stem cells

«Each area of the brain is different with distinct cell types and connectivity, so if we can confirm that one area of circuitry is more involved in a particular symptom than another, we may eventually be able to treat a depression patient more efficiently than treating everyone the same way.»

In principle, scientists can modify AAVs to infect some cell types more than others to deliver their therapeutic payloads where they are most needed.

The researchers believe this is the first 3D in vitro cardiac tissue with three cell types that can beat together as one entity rather than at different intervals.

The researchers studied triple - negative breast cancer cells, which grow and spread faster than most other types of cancer cells.

This was ten times more of these types of cells than researchers have ever been able to generate before.

This is how treatments based on a type of white blood cell called T - cells are curing some cancers, rather than just slowing their advance (see «Cancer meets its nemesis in reprogrammed blood cells «-RRB-.

«This is important because some cancer cells are more resistant to one type of treatment than another.

With that knowledge, they screened more than four dozen monoclonal antibodies — unique agents that can stop cells from growing or forming tumors and can be mass produced — before finding two that block tumor creation in both types of cancer.

A host can often be infected with more than one type of virus and, as viruses replicate in the host's cells, the genetic segments of the progeny viruses can be shuffled into new combinations.

Using animal models of precancerous polyps in the bowel, Chung and his team determined that certain types of immune cells within a chronically inflamed intestine can become rewired, causing them — paradoxically — to contribute to disease development rather than protect against it.

The study published in Cancer Cell shows that exosomes from tumor cells of breast cancer (and other tumor types such as ovarian and endometrial) are different in size and composition than those of healthy cells.

Antibodies derived from a type of immune cell found in unusually high numbers in HIV - infected individuals with chronically uncontrolled virus levels are less effective at neutralizing HIV than antibodies derived from a different type of immune cell more common in people without HIV, scientists report.

The team believes that whichever way BMP - 7 is used, it will be less risky than other treatments for type 1 diabetes that are currently being investigated, such as those that create pancreatic cells from stem cells, or by introducing new genes into the body.

But two types of nanomaterial — loosely defined as stuff smaller than 100 nanometers — are worth worrying about, the panel found, because some evidence suggests that loose nanoparticles and nanotubes can readily penetrate cells and are toxic.

With more than 10,000 pieces of data being collected about each individual cell, modern computers are essential in achieving the level of sensitivity needed for this type of research.»

An HPV test, in which doctors test a cervicovaginal specimen for the presence of the nucleic acids of carcinogenic types of HPV, is more sensitive than the Pap test (a microscopic examination of exfoliated cells) for detection of precancers.

They discovered that genetic variation influencing a person's risk for multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and type 1diabetes is more likely to control gene activity in T cells than in monocytes.

These organoids had more stem cells than those isolated from wild - type mice.

This is important because tumors are not all alike and some types of tumor cells may respond differently to a specific drug than others, Skala pointed out.

Three types of colon cancer cells grew faster, producing about 50 to 60 percent more cells within 24 hours, with the bacteria than they did when cultured with no bacteria or with a harmless, milk - fermenting bacterium called Lactococcus lactis.

Although primed, post-implantation embryonic stem cells can still turn into any type of human cell, they are more difficult to work with than the pre-implantation, naive cells.

An APC - mimetic scaffold that was engineered to activate a specific type of CAR - T cell was able to generate higher numbers of the modified T cells over longer periods of culture than analogously designed expansion beads, and the resulting cells were similarly effective in killing the lymphoma cells in the mice.

Philip Laipis of the University of Florida, who has also observed tumors in AAV vector - treated mice, agrees, at least for studies using a similarly high dose of AAV to target liver cells, which are more likely than other cell types to take up the AAV vector.

Unlike transplanted beta cells — or other types of real cells genetically engineered to release insulin for diabetes treatment (SN: 1/15/11, p. 9)-- these artificial cells could be mass - produced and have a much longer shelf life than live cells, says study coauthor Zhen Gu, a biomedical engineer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

This makes them easier to control than other types of cells used in therapies and makes side effects unlikely.

More than a decade ago, Clevers identified a type of mother cell in the gut that can give birth to all other intestinal cells.

Their findings in the study «Phosphoglycerate mutase 1 regulates dNTP pool and promotes homologous recombination repair in cancer cells,» which has been published in The Journal of Cell Biology, suggest that this FDA - approved ovarian cancer medicine has the potential to treat a wider range of cancer types than currently indicated.

About 10 percent of the more than 26 million Americans living with type 2 diabetes are also dependent upon insulin injections, and would presumably be candidates for beta cell transplants, Melton said.

Through more than 1,600 separate experiments, analysis of more than 140 cell types and a massive amount of data analysis, the group found about 4 million of these so - called switches and can now assign functions to more than 80 percent of the entire genome.

The research team with international collaborators analysed more than 100 patient samples from ovarian and other cancer types to discover a distinct population of cells found in some tumours.

«Simply by counting cell types, we immediately saw that there were more Tregs in the older mice with diabetes than any other group.»

They looked at white blood cells called monocytes, a major cell type involved in rheumatoid arthritis, and found that those cells behaved differently in one group than in the other.

«We've now seen that there is much more fluidity between the cell types than originally thought.»

Further analysis showed that wild type HIV - 1 tends to integrate itself into or near genes affecting CD4 + T cell activation and metabolism more frequently than does the mutant strain.

That DNA includes slightly less than 21,000 protein - coding genes (some researchers once estimated we had more than 100,000 such genes); «genes» for 8800 small RNA molecules and 9600 long noncoding RNA molecules, each of which is at least 200 bases long; and 11,224 stretches of DNA that are classified as pseudogenes, «dead» genes now known to really be active in some cell types or individuals.

The research also answers a long - standing question about why motor neurons, the nerve cells of the spinal cord that control muscle movement, form much faster than other types of neurons.

Tumors are home to diverse immune cell types, some of which remain much less explored than T cells and could also control cancer progression» says Mikael Pittet, PhD, director of the Cancer Immunology Program in the MGH Center for Systems Biology and senior author of the Science paper.