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cell

[sel] / sɛl /




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Rather than examining a tumor as a single mass, this approach allows researchers to investigate the behavior of its different cell populations and identify potentially dangerous cells that might otherwise go unnoticed.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

From his cell in the Bangkok Remand Prison, where he has been for the last three years, Arnon has been writing to his young daughter and son.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

One possible direction involves immunotherapy, including CAR-T cell therapy.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

All the men who escaped were undertrials - inmates on trial or awaiting one - and 18 of them were in one cell at the prison in Thekkampatti in Theni.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

I enter the address on my cell and see the street view of where the old man lives.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

One of the keys to understanding the foveola is a group of specialized light-detecting cells called cones.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

These small clusters of cells, grown from fetal cells, reproduce important features of developing human tissue.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

Together, they determine which types of cells form in the central retina and how some of those cells change as development continues.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

This suggests that different genetic abnormalities can ultimately push cancer cells toward a shared aggressive state.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

Weismann had proposed a radical alternative: perhaps hereditary information was contained exclusively in sperm and egg cells, with no direct mechanism for an acquired characteristic to be transmitted into sperm or eggs.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee


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