cell lineage

noun

1. biology the developmental history of a tissue or part of an organism from particular cells in the fertilized egg or embryo through to their fully differentiated state

Example Sentences

"The cell lineage that healed had switched off SOX9 expression, while the unhealed lineage, in a continuing attempt to fully regenerate, maintained SOX9 activity. It's like a sensor that switches on when cells want to regenerate, and off when they are restored, and we are the first to identify this."

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The extra X chromosome becomes a dark, misshapen mass that persists silently in each cell lineage.

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Recipients range from a handful individuals given $200 for educational projects to $2.6 million for the UW’s Allen Discovery Center for Cell Lineage Tracing, according to federal tax filings.

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Other researchers, however, say it’s still possible that nerve cells had multiple origins after the last common ancestor, each time arising from the same stem cell lineage.

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Writing in Nature, Chen et al.3 identify a previously uncharacterized type of thermogenic fat cell, which is derived from a hitherto unknown cell lineage and burns mainly sugar, rather than the sugar and lipid combination processed by most thermogenic fat.

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