Sentences with phrase «while leaving the cells»

Ideally, a biobattery would draw on this energy while leaving the cells intact.

Not exact matches

Even some who come to the Bible to try to discredit it find that they come to faith; David Wood being one example, who tried to prove Christianity wrong while in a prison cell, but left it as a believer.

Four days later, the team removed the fluid covering the cells, leaving them open to the air while still being sustained and supported from below, as they would be in the trachea.

The hope is that 3BP specifically kills certain cancer cells — while leaving normal cells alone — because they rely more on glucose metabolism than on an alternative pathway called oxidative phosphorylation.

In his thirties, he learned about a new way to stain tissue developed by the Italian Camillo Golgi: a new silver - based stain that turned some nerve cells completely black while leaving most others entirely untouched, rendering the delicate branches of the nerve processes clearly visible (as seen in the image on the left).

«We now have evidence that these tiny Trojan horses will also be able to carry genes that selectively induce death in cancer cells, while leaving healthy cells healthy.»

While the research showed that the T cells left the bloodstream, where they went is a mystery.

The researchers say that while inhibiting SAMHD1 would leave patients without a tool for fighting viruses, it may prevent the killing of the immune cells required to combat HIV.

«Whether it's bacteria swarming, cells roaming or energy - consuming «arrows» flying, these systems share universal characteristics independent of the precise size and structure of the agents as well as their detailed interactions,» said corresponding author Bowick, who is on leave from Syracuse University while in his role at KITP.

Lead author Nora Volkow, a psychiatrist at the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health, recruited 47 healthy volunteers and used positron emission tomography (PET) scans to measure glucose metabolism in the brain while cell phones were placed over the right or left ear.

Special strains of the adenovirus, the researchers say, have been altered to deploy anticancer genes within tumors, killing cancer cells while leaving healthy ones unscathed.

The metallopolymer by itself even demonstrated antimicrobial properties, lysing bacterial cells while leaving human red blood cells unaffected.

The Kanzius RF Machine transmits focused radio waves to these nanoparticles, which respond by releasing heat and incinerating infected cells while leaving the surrounding healthy cells intact.

Such drugs would be much more effective at killing cancer cells while leaving healthy cells unhurt, which significantly reduces side effects for patients.»

While for most individuals, there will be no long - term consequences, in some the infection may leave genetic scars and change the metabolism of these cells,» explained Wulf.

Titanium is not an essential nutrient for plants, Raliya says, but boosts light absorption by increasing chlorophyll content in the leaves and promotes photosynthesis, properties Biswas» lab discovered while creating solar cells.

Upping the activity of neurons in one region of the brain, they found, made flies court like crazy, while stifling nerve cell activity in the same brain zone left males disinterested.

The team demonstrate that targeting of C1 T - cells can kill C1 cancers while leaving all normal C2 T - cells unharmed so that they can take care of infections.

In this test case, the aptamer specifically targeted group A Streptococcus, the bacteria that causes strep throat and invasive skin infections, while leaving human cells untouched.

While scientists have known for years that African trypanosomes cause sleeping sickness, they've been left scratching their heads as to how these tiny single - celled organisms communicate.

Blocking the enzyme causes the cancerous cells to die, so the company is working with a telomerase inhibitor, imetelstat, that it hopes will kill tumor cells while leaving healthy ones unharmed.

Using a genetic strategy in mice, the researchers were able to ablate these Gli1 cells, while leaving other cells unharmed.

Along with restoring structure and function to the p53 mutant protein, this drug compound has the ability to to activate a program that selectively kills cancer cells with this particular mutation while leaving normal cells undisturbed.

Typically, the capsules are attracted to a specific protein that the cancer cells produce, preferentially targeting tumors while leaving healthy cells untouched.

An antibiotic is a poison that works to destroy bacterial cells while leaving human cells unharmed.

The luciferin and coenzyme A were packaged inside polymer nanoparticles that enter and build up in an inner layer of the leaf, while the luciferase was contained inside much smaller silica nanoparticles, allowing them to enter the plant cells.

The left eye did not contain transplanted cells (Figure 6E), while the induced retina expressed YFP throughout, confirming that it formed entirely from the transplanted donor cells (Figure 6F).

While CRISPR / Cas9 is a powerful technique for genome manipulation, two significant challenges remain: obtaining efficient delivery of the Cas9 / sgRNA complex to all cell types, and leaving no additional footprint (i.e., persistent and elevated expression of Cas9 in target cells) that could lead to off - target effects.

Immune cells are able to target threats selectively within the body — be they virally infected cells, bacteria, parasites, or cancerous cells — while, in most normal cases, leaving healthy cells unharmed.

Both conditioned medium from J147 treated cells (Figure 3G, middle right panel) and NGF treated cells promoted neurite outgrowth (Figure 3G, top right panel), while control medium did not (Figure 3G, top and middle left panels).

After a heart attack (myocardial infarction), inflexible scar tissue known as an infarct is left while some heart muscle cells remain alive, though with inadequate blood flow.

Directly injected viral vector, Toca 511, is designed to spread through brain cancer cells and kill them while leaving healthy cells unharmed

Olaparib, taken in pill form, was designed to target cancers containing faulty BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, while leaving healthy cells unharmed.

While there are no intact dodo cells left today, scientists have retrieved bits of dodo DNA from a specimen stored at the University of Oxford.

We're working to understand how aneuploidy impacts cancer progression, in hopes of developing therapies that can specifically eliminate aneuploid cancers while leaving normal cells unharmed.

We made two critical discoveries: the signals occur while the embryo is still just a simple cup - shaped structure, before any organs have begun to form; and, from the very beginning, these cells are earmarked for either the left or right ventricle (chamber) of the heart.

Leaving the distressed cells alone risks having them cause collateral damage to other cells, while destroying them eliminates potentially critical brain cells, many of which don't regenerate.

Tumor immunologists are therefore able to design immunotherapies that target only cancer cells while leaving normal cells unharmed.

A new cancer - seeking compound that can trace a pancreatic tumor's outline with exceptional clarity, then attack cancer cells while leaving healthy tissues alone, is undergoing tests at the Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center's Photodynamic Therapy Center.

While leaving the West Coast appointment, she got a call from DeZern informing her that the most recent tests indicated Cavalancia also had some leukemia cells in her blood that needed to be treated right away.

In the chilly months of early spring, while neighboring competitors sit dormant, and before overhead trees come into leaf, the plant gets a jump - start on growth by pumping its cells full of water.

Intravenous C appears to trigger the formation of hydrogen peroxide, which kills some cancer cells while leaving healthy cells unharmed, says lead study author Mark Levine, MD, chief of the molecular and clinical nutrition section and senior staff physician at the National Institutes of Health.

When they leave the muscle cells FGF and IFG - 1 stimulate the satellite cells to start proliferating and differentiating, while the TGF - beta is in charge of mediating, in this case, inhibiting growth.

Curcumin sensitizes cancer cells to chemotherapy and radiation, which makes these toxic therapies more targeted (helping to attack the cancer, while leaving healthy, unaffected cells and tissues unharmed).

While the body burns fat with the increase in human growth hormone it leaves behind lean muscle, and the added HGH stimulates the growth of the cells that form tissues and muscles.

Honey will leave your skin clean, fresh and moisturized while lemon's AHA and BHA will effectively get rid of dead skin cells and lighten complexion.

Anti-apoptotic proteins in cancer cells were inhibited, while normal cells» apoptotic programming was left intact.

Studies have shown that lemon grass can help fight cancer while leaving healthy cells intact.

For example, in a petri dish, there are rice phytonutrients that can inhibit the growth of colon cancer cells, at greater and greater doses, while apparently leaving normal colon cells alone.

Platelet - rich plasma is obtained via a process called centrifugation that removes red and white blood cells from a blood sample while leaving behind a high concentration of platelets in the plasma.