primary cell
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of primary cell
First recorded in 1900–05
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Co-author Jeffrey Miner, Ph.D., co-founder and chief scientific officer of Viscient Biosciences, underscored the importance of being able to produce a high-fidelity in vitro human primary cell model of MASH.
From Science Daily • Jan. 23, 2024
Standard primary cell cultures in current in vitro dishes don't survive long, Kim said.
From Science Daily • Oct. 3, 2023
The pancreatic islets contain two primary cell types: alpha cells, which produce the hormone glucagon, and beta cells, which produce the hormone insulin.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
During the spring growing season, cells of the secondary xylem have a large internal diameter and their primary cell walls are not extensively thickened.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
The germ of life—that primary cell with its granule, in which some physiologists have detected the first elementary form of life—he finds to be a product of chemistry.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various
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