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
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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