cell line

American  

noun

Cell Biology.

1. a perpetuating strain of cells in laboratory culture.

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cell line British  

noun

1. biology a clone of animal or plant cells that can be grown in a suitable nutrient culture medium in the laboratory

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Etymology

Origin of cell line

First recorded in 1950–55

Example Sentences

They used CRISPR/Cas9 to introduce the exact same mutation into a healthy stem cell line.

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One dataset came from a human leukemia cell line that is commonly used to study red blood cell traits.

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In earlier work, an MIT researcher who was not involved in this study had switched off each gene in that cell line, one at a time, and tracked how losing that gene changed genetic activity.

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"Our two-layer embryo-like aggregates were the key to our success. Other studies usually use a mixture of different stem cell lines. However, the cell populations we used come from just one stem cell line. This means that they not only have an identical genetic background, but also utilise the same communication systems. You could also say that they are on the same wavelength," says Schröter.

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The Lieberman lab, in seeking to understand how EBV contributes to the development of MS, collaborated with Steven Jacobson, Ph.D., of the Neuroimmunology Branch at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, who contributed cell line samples from patients.

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