cell biology

American  

noun

1. the branch of biology dealing with the study of cells, especially their formation, structure, components, and function.

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Example Sentences

Professor Filip Husnik, head of the Evolution, Cell Biology, and Symbiosis Unit at OIST, notes the surprise of this discovery.

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The findings were reported in Nature Cell Biology and were supported in part by grants from the Department of Defense, the National Institutes of Health and the American Cancer Society.

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In cell biology, small shifts often reveal major truths.

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Because this junction is so small and its activity unfolds rapidly, it has long been challenging to study in detail, says Shigeki Watanabe, Ph.D., an associate professor of cell biology at Johns Hopkins Medicine and the senior author of the study.

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"We've known since our 2015 study that soybean oil is more obesogenic than coconut oil," said Frances Sladek, a UCR professor of cell biology.

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