Sentences with phrase «to kill cells»

There is an absence of insulin - producing beta cells and also an autoimmune attack, which is what killed the cells in the first place.

The system is one of research's fastest growing biomedical techniques that allows scientists to make specific changes in the DNA of plants and animals while not killing cells.

The experiments often require drastic steps (such as knocking out genes, killing cells with antibodies, sewing animals together) that are impossible in human beings.

These oxygen molecules then become highly reactive «free radicals,» which can damage or even kill cells.

Sometimes, this damage kills the cells outright; other times, the damage results in mutations that can lead to a myriad of health problems.

These cells are highly specialized guardians of the immune system and their role is to kill cells infected by a virus, damaged cells, or cancer cells.

The immune system, which helps fight off germs, also kills cells from other individuals.

Scientists used to think a cold worked just like a flu, which attacks and kills cells inside the body.

Instead, the cells held onto the ink until the researchers killed the cells.

The existence of receptors which can kill cells merely by binding to one another suggests that many of our cells are permanently balanced on the edge of suicide.

People die from radiation sickness because radiation kills cells lining the gut and in bone marrow.

Because oxidation leads to free radicals, which, after a chain of events, can kill cells in certain circumstances if they are present in abundant numbers.

Previous methods required chemical or physical treatments that most likely disturb or even kill the cells.

Pseudomonas attacks and eventually kills cells by injecting them with toxins.

But now that de Lange has shown that microtubules are needed for this process, it points to a potential problem if doctors combine PARP inhibitors with another type of chemotherapy that is often prescribed in these cancers, Taxol (paclitaxel)-- which kills cells by disrupting the function of microtubules.

Traditional genetic approaches together with the new wealth of genomic information for both human and model organisms open up strategies by which drugs can be profiled for their ability to selectively kill cells in a molecular context that matches those found in tumors.

HIV can be suppressed using antiretroviral drugs but not cured, because the drugs only kill cells in which the virus is multiplying.

The radiation within the abnormal cells kills those cells generally sparing normal tissue and adjacent parathyroid tissue.

Strands of tau accumulate inside brain cells, disrupting the flow of signals and ultimately killing the cells.

In contrast, Disney noted, a typical cancer therapeutic targets and kills cells indiscriminately, often leading to side effects that can make these drugs difficult for patients to tolerate.

Researchers have found that indole -3-carbinol works by halting the cell cycle in breast cancer cells without actually killing the cells.

When a compound kills the cells, that's a hit, flagged for further investigation.

Today, researchers in the laboratory of Gladstone Investigator Leor Weinberger, PhD, announce the key to CMV's success: a type of «accelerator circuit» hidden within the virus» DNA that lets CMV reach optimal levels quickly before the host cell has time to respond — but that also stops the virus from killing the cell before those optimal levels are reached.

In their publication in Angewandte Chemie, the authors also emphasize its photodynamic potential to selectively kill cells upon irradiation.

Many diseases kill cells within organs, claiming lives or impairing a person's ability to live a normal life.

Researchers demonstrated that the drugs pemetrexed and gemcitabine killed cells from mouse and human brain tumors, called group 3 medulloblastoma, growing in the laboratory.

This last feature helps prevent the virus from building up to toxic levels inside a cell — an action that would kill the cell before the virus had a chance to spread to neighboring cells.

Protein pathways like these help cancer cells multiply and spread, so shutting them down helps kill the cells.

Chemotherapy for MDS patients involves the use of medicines that kill cells cancer cells called cytotoxic agents.

Cyclophosphamide, Doxorubicin, and most chemotherapy drugs for cancer — these drugs kill cells in the mother's body and may harm the baby.

«We found that a protein expressed by gut bacteria called Bacteroides works to prevent IBD by rapidly recruiting white blood cells to kill a cell of the immune system that is responsible for orchestrating IBD,» says McCoy.

Bratton Lab advances understanding of how chemotherapies kill cells (11/24/16) Apoptosis, or programmed cell death, is a means cells use to cause their own death.

Sometimes, the damage kills the cell outright.

That suggests that the damage done to the lungs is the result of an overreaction of the host, rather than the virus killing cells, Kash says.

A second challenge is to see if the same «production line closures» are what kill cells in patients with Alzheimer's and other dementias.

, or abuse the child, and have the child suffer later on) and furthermore, scientifically abortion is nothing more then killing a cell.

As a physics teacher, I teach the therapeutic effects of gamma radiation in radiotherapy, along with the associated dangers (radiation can cause cells to become cancerous as well as kill cells that are already cancerous), but a common misconception among students is that cancer cells are rather like viruses or bacteria, a sort of alien cell that has entered the body, growing out of control with little relation to the surrounding cells.

The payload kills cells by means other than genetic destruction, in contrast to the current standard treatments.

Adenoviruses can deliver foreign genes into mammalian cells, but within 3 to 4 weeks the immune system kills cells that have taken up the virus.

«Phages can kill the cell immediately, or they can become dormant and kill it later,» says Abhyudai Singh, assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Delaware.

When the telomeres get too short, the ends stick to one another, wreaking havoc when the cell divides and in most cases killing the cell.

«Thiopeptide antibiotics kill cells by blocking a part of the ribosome,» Griffitts explains.

In so doing the caspace cascade kills the cell — causing apoptosis.

Williams counters this argument by pointing out that the dose of radiation used to treat adults probably kills cells.

Comparing the drug with a known chemotherapy agent, the team found that after 72 hours, AG1295 had killed nearly half the cancer cells that contained a FLT3 mutation and none of the cells that did not, while the chemotherapy agent killed cells with or without FLT3 mutations with equal vigor.

The enzyme has the novel ability to convert a chemical, metronidazole, into a toxin, which allows researchers to selectively kill the cells expressing it.

They also want to create and test derivatives of CGP3466B to learn more about cocaine - induced autophagy and see if cocaine is killing any cells outside the brain.

In 2012 and 2013, Lacy and her colleagues reported the mechanism by which toxin B kills cells.