engraft

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When applied to the skin of mice -the only animal model able to test engineered bacteria to date- they engraft, live and produce the protein.

From Science Daily • Jan. 9, 2024

Jimi also needed chemotherapy to kill off existing cells in his bone marrow so that his edited stem cells would have room to engraft and grow.

From Washington Post • Apr. 28, 2023

But it can take about six weeks for cord blood cells to engraft, so she was also given partially matched blood stem cells from a first-degree relative.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 15, 2022

The ultimate aim is to create the so-called universal T cell—a cell that has the capacity to engraft in any person’s body.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 15, 2019

Ethelred sought to "engraft the branch of Cerdic upon the stem of Rollo," in the hope of increasing the power of England.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 by Various