These replaced the diseased sickled cells, curing the test mice.
Studying how the diseased human cells develop in a mouse could offer treatment insights.
And the normal cells could supply the gene that the diseased cells lack.
The bystander effect is therefore important to consider in diseased cells which opened an avenue for more funding and a flourish of research.
The diseased cells should also provide an excellent means of screening thousands of chemicals for new drugs.
It was hoped the fetal cells would take over the functions of the diseased cells.
Presumably, therapeutic effect can be obtained by provoking a selective response against the diseased cells only.
An ice ball forms over the diseased cells.
This new medicine is supposed to attack diseased cells, and destroy them.
That made it possible to determine with unprecedented precision differences in the constituents of normal and diseased cells.