This means that it affects only cells in its path.
This effect may affect cells beyond the range of thermal damage.
This makes it more difficult to find or design drugs that target fungi without affecting human cells.
Some antioxidants appear to affect cancer cells, controlling how they grow or spread.
Also gamitrinib is highly selective and does not affect normal cells.
Researchers have found that some plant stress hormones share the ability to adversely affect human cancer cells.
Radiation therapy can affect cancer cells and healthy cells in the treatment area.
Of the remaining genes, he focussed on those which could affect endothelial cells.
Hormones are chemicals that circulate in the body affecting cells and the nervous system, including the brain.
But these treatments can also affect healthy cells.