Sentences with phrase «tumour cells taken»

Not exact matches

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg are focusing on how HAMLET can be taken up into tumour cells.

These were released into tumour cells that had been taken from glioblastoma patients and grown in the lab.

He suggests, instead, that the team take T cells from the site of the tumour, because they would already be specialized for attacking cancer.

Anne Goriely of the University of Oxford and her colleagues took tumour cells from men with benign testicular tumours and looked for specific mutations in the FGFR3 and HRAS genes.

«Tumour cells often take advantage of existing mechanisms, such as the one we have described, to cause havoc.

But at the time, they thought it might take years to pinpoint the precise position of the gene, sequence it, and understand how it causes mutations to accumulate in tumour cells (This Week, 15 May).

For the first time ever, we could make a really comprehensive comparison of individual normal and tumour cells from the exact same type of tissue, taken at the same time, from the same person, and see how the cancer had developed.»

The team worked on tissue from three patients with colorectal cancer, taking normal bowel stem cells and cells from four different areas of the tumours.

First, the researchers inhibited the tumour cell mitochondria, by restricting the cancer cells only to glucose as a fuel source; then, they took away their glucose, effectively starving the cancer cells to death.

The tumour killing functions of Natural Killer cells require energy and to meet this demand NK cells take on more fuel, which they burn within a metabolic engine to drive energy production.