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body cell

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noun

  1. somatic cell.


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DNA is removed from a camel egg cell and replaced with DNA from a frozen body cell of a camel prized for some quality such as speed or beauty.

From Reuters May 25, 2023

In this cloning technology, technicians replace the nucleus of an egg cell with a nucleus taken from a body cell.

From Science Magazine Jan. 13, 2022

Using methods that start with tissue cells called fibroblasts, researchers can engineer stem cells, which are cells capable of becoming any kind of body cell.

From Scientific American Mar. 13, 2018

The first concerns pluripotent stem cells, the predecessors of every other body cell.

From Economist Jun. 12, 2014

Some "faculties," as memory and volition, may be said in a sense to be primordial endowments of every nerve cell—even of every body cell.

From A History of Science — Volume 4 by Williams, Henry Smith

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