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progenitor

[proh-jen-i-ter] / proʊˈdʒɛn ɪ tər /




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When administered to mice, the progenitor cells established themselves in the bone marrow and other locations responsible for blood cell production.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

Rather than trying to manufacture large numbers of mature macrophages, first author Shi Yue, MD, of Ying's laboratory and his colleagues concentrated on GMPs, the progenitor cells that can produce macrophages.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

Researchers have identified possible stem or progenitor cells capable of forming cartilage in bone, but efforts to find similar cell populations within articular cartilage itself have not been successful.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

Researchers may have been trying to convert one type of progenitor cell into another fate that it was never capable of adopting.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

It makes the progenitor of all this group of insecticides, DDT, seem by comparison almost harmless.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

This result suggests that renewable, genetically engineered immune cell progenitors might eventually have applications beyond cancer, including treatments for inherited immune deficiencies and potentially infectious diseases.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

Much in the same way Slate was early to formats that would come to dominate digital publishing—explainers, deliberately counterintuitive arguments, chat podcasts—so too were we early progenitors of the internet listicle.

From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2026

Those animals were the progenitors of the vast Native American pony herds of later centuries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

Its progenitors - who now can generate videos of literally anything in just a few minutes - have the potential to disrupt the lucrative influencer economy.

From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2025

Many of these late-stage fruit trees posed a further problem in that their wild progenitors were the opposite of self-pollinating.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond


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