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[sel] / sɛl /




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Moderna and Merck are also working on vaccines for non-small cell lung, bladder, kidney, pancreatic and gastric cancers.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

Analysts are waiting for a Phase 2 readout in renal cell carcinoma that’s expected later this year to see if the cancer vaccine works in other types of cancer.

From MarketWatch Aug. 19, 2026

Jurors heard her phone connected to cell towers in both of those areas.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

Instead, the humid silence is punctuated by the diesel generators, the occasional Bluetooth speaker or the tinny buzzing of a cell phone squeezing out reggaeton, reparto or US pop.

From Barron's Aug. 18, 2026

He pulled his cell phone out of his backpack and began dialing.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

The team discovered that electrical charge is a key factor in determining whether antibody fragments can remain stable and functional inside cells.

From Science Daily Aug. 20, 2026

The newly redesigned fragments, called intrabodies, have instead been engineered to remain stable within cells, allowing them to target proteins involved in neurodegenerative conditions.

From Science Daily Aug. 20, 2026

They then select mutations unique to the patient’s cancer to incorporate into an mRNA molecule, which provides the genetic code instructing cells to produce proteins with those mutations.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

The result is a personalised anti-cancer jab which is specific to the patient's tumour and instructs the immune system to recognise and attack any tumour cells that remain.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

Throughout the biological world, genes generally travel vertically—i.e., from parents to children, or from parent cells to daughter cells.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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