Viruses, tumors and toxin - laden cells are
weaker than normal cells.
Said simply, because cancer cells are
weaker than normal cells, they are more susceptible to damage from heat.
Not exact matches
When researchers infected these ERV - depleted
cells with the vaccinia virus (which may be related to smallpox), they had a much
weaker innate immune response
than unedited
normal cells, the team reports online today in Science.
Although muscle
cells did not reduce in size or number in mice lacking a protective antioxidant protein, they were
weaker than normal muscle
cells, researchers from the Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies at The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio found.
The scientists noticed several abnormalities in the heart
cells created from the patients: the
cells beat
weaker than normal, and numerous genes in the
cells were abnormally activated or silenced.