body cell
Americannoun
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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
The baby itself destroys its own body, cell by cell, in its play, its struggles and its crying.
From Manual of the Enumeration A Text Book on the Sciences of the Enumeration by C. J. Coffman
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